Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber
Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth19 September 1964
films mainstream mike
But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
drawing personal puts themselves
Well, I never know how much an actor puts of themselves in, and how much they're drawing on personal experience, and I wouldn't like to pry.
horribly structures
But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
bit characters component feels invented wrote
It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
cross feels hollywood line moral pain seductive
I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
couple dramatic elegant hoped last meeting power rest structure tension underlying
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.
calling nice notice people sort
It just sort of slowly... you notice more people are calling but it doesn't feel like a big shock. It's very nice but it's not shocking.
arse miss theatre
I'd really like to write a play. I miss the theatre and I've got to get off my arse and write a play; that's really what I've got to do.
versions
Everything is a version of something else.
couple play collapse
A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
thank-god world body
Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.
easy feels i-can
Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words
hurt
I love everything about you that hurts.
girl fun lying
Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.