Patrick Marber Quotes

Patrick Marber — English Writer born on September 19, 1964,

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter... (wikipedia)

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

Patrick Marber Quotes

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