Patrick Marber Quotes

• 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.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Hollywood

• I like them all – I don’t always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they’re decent.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Myself, Approve

• But I’m the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Wrong

• 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.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Play, Emotional

• I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film’s come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in New York

• I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I’ll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Parents, Theatre

• 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.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Characters

• 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

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Character

• 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.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proud, Film, Hollywood

• Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in People, Characters

• I’m a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It’s very nice. It’s a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn’t ever nominated for, for years and things.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Nice

• I’m constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tendency

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

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happily, Married, Man

• A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Couple

• It’s one of the reasons I don’t do drugs. One sniff and I’d go all the way.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason

• Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Theatre

• 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.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lucky, Writers And Writing

• When I look back I can’t believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer’s Choice.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Choice

• 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.

  Patrick Marber

  Topics in Life, Love

Patrick Marber (19)

Birth:	19th September, 1964
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Director, Playwriter, Screenwriter

About

Marber was born in London, England, the son of Brian Marber, a leading and highly regarded technical analyst, and was raised in Wimbledon. He was educated at Rokeby Preparatory School, St Paul's School, Cranleigh School and Wadham College, Oxford.

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