Jez Butterworth

“I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.”

“My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the...”

“Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.”

“Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.”