“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.” ThinkingHeartI CanSometimesCharacterMistakeDecentUnclesBenevolenceBenevolent Author:Patrick Marber
“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.” PeopleTryingKindSoulPlayCharacterFeltEssentialsCastsComponentsAlways Trying Author:Patrick Marber
“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.” WritingPlayCharacterAnswersEmotionHappenedEventsNarrativeCorny Author:Patrick Marber
