Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth (born March 1969) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has written screenplays in collaboration with his brothers, John-Henry and Tom. Read full biography of Jez Butterworth →
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... →
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... →
When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six... →
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... →
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... →
I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
I grew up in a household that was very left wing.
I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your... →
Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth (born March 1969) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has written screenplays in collaboration with his brothers, John-Henry and Tom.