Jez Butterworth quotes:

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

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 news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

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.

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

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

I grew up in a household that was very left wing.

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

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true.