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Top 25 Martin McDonagh Quotes (2025 Update)

Martin McDonagh Quote: “It doesn’t feel like you’re preaching, if you can say something in a joke.”

1. “It doesn’t feel like you’re preaching, if you can say something in a joke.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “I don’t feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don’t feel either. And, in another way, of course, I’m both.”

2. “I don’t feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don’t feel either. And, in another way, of course, I’m both.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “When I’m happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.”

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

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “Coleman: It’s always the best ones go to hell. Me, probably straight to heaven I’ll go, even though I blew the head off poor dad. So long as I go confessing to it anyways. That’s the good thing about being Catholic. You can shoot your dad in the head and it doesn’t even matter at all.”

5. “Coleman: It’s always the best ones go to hell. Me, probably straight to heaven I’ll go, even though I blew the head off poor dad. So long as I go confessing to it anyways. That’s the good thing about being Catholic. You can shoot your dad in the head and it doesn’t even matter at all.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “It isn’t about being or not being dead, it’s about what you leave behind.”

6. “It isn’t about being or not being dead, it’s about what you leave behind.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “Right at this moment, I don’t care if they kill me. I don’t care. But they’re not going to kill my stories. They’re not going to kill my stories. They’re all I’ve got.”

7. “Right at this moment, I don’t care if they kill me. I don’t care. But they’re not going to kill my stories. They’re not going to kill my stories. They’re all I’ve got.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don’t realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.”

8. “Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don’t realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That’s where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.”

9. “There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That’s where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “I hope there’s some kind of morality in all my work.”

10. “I hope there’s some kind of morality in all my work.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!”

11. “I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there’s only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I’ve never liked.”

12. “The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there’s only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I’ve never liked.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.”

13. “I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “I realize that I am never going to grow up.”

17. “I realize that I am never going to grow up.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “It’s the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.”

18. “It’s the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “I’d just like to thank everybody who was involved in the film, especially Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhri Conroy. And Ruaidhri, I’m sorry that you couldn’t be here tonight, but I hope next time they let you into the country.”

19. “I’d just like to thank everybody who was involved in the film, especially Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhri Conroy. And Ruaidhri, I’m sorry that you couldn’t be here tonight, but I hope next time they let you into the country.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They’re down and dirty, real and more fun.”

20. “My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They’re down and dirty, real and more fun.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “It’s like two years straight out of your life doing a film. It’s very enjoyable, especially working with the guys, but I kind of like the idea of traveling and growing, and developing as a writer and as a filmmaker.”

21. “It’s like two years straight out of your life doing a film. It’s very enjoyable, especially working with the guys, but I kind of like the idea of traveling and growing, and developing as a writer and as a filmmaker.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “I don’t even subscribe to writer’s block being a truthful thing. I’ve had writer’s laziness quite often. But I think it’s all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I’ve always been ok at that.”

22. “I don’t even subscribe to writer’s block being a truthful thing. I’ve had writer’s laziness quite often. But I think it’s all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I’ve always been ok at that.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.”

23. “All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “I used to love you very much.”

24. “I used to love you very much.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “If you’ve got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.”

25. “If you’ve got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won’t hear about any offers or options.”

26. “I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won’t hear about any offers or options.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you’re not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of ‘Beauty Queen,’ people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn’t really prepared for that level of attention.”

27. “I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you’re not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of ‘Beauty Queen,’ people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn’t really prepared for that level of attention.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “When you’ve got good actors, they’re going to come up with good stuff, but you’re never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.”

28. “When you’ve got good actors, they’re going to come up with good stuff, but you’re never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.”

— Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh Quote: “Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I’m the good cop, he’s the bad cop.” – Tupolski.”

29. “Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I’m the good cop, he’s the bad cop.” – Tupolski.”

— Martin McDonagh

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