Martin McDonagh Writing Quotations

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.