Jez Butterworth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A lifetimeâ€™s work, to try and say one thing thatâ€™s true.
-- Jez Butterworth

#Trying #Lifetime
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
-- Jez Butterworth

#Sitting #Should #Pubs
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.
-- Jez Butterworth

#Trying #Example #Different
I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
-- Jez Butterworth

#Past #Feelings #And Love
I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
-- Jez Butterworth

#Guy #Genius #Comedy
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.
-- Jez Butterworth

#Writing #Character #People
A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.
-- Jez Butterworth

#Trying #Lifetime #One Thing

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
Commit to loving yourself completely. Itâ€™s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.
If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.

Jez Butterworth famous quotes

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