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I am not entirely off grid. I send a lot of email. But the way Facebook constantly alters its privacy settings to bamboozle you into giving more away is just underhand.
~ Mike Bartlett
Am
Away
Constantly
Email
Entirely
Facebook
Giving
Grid
I Am
Just
Lot
More
Off
Privacy
Send
Settings
Way
You
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I don't care more about '13' because it's in the Olivier than I did about 'Cock' in a 100-seat studio. They both matter because it's still a person sat there watching your play. And the play has to be good enough - because there are a hundred other writers out there who deserve to have their play on instead.
~ Mike Bartlett
About
Because
Both
Care
Deserve
Did
don't Care
Enough
Good
Hundred
Instead
Matter
More
Other
Out
Person
Play
Sat
Still
Studio
Than
Watching
Who
Writers
Your
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I don't tend to write articles and blogs because, I think, if you went into the theatre knowing that this is the writer's view on x, y, and z, it's just game over for the play.
~ Mike Bartlett
Articles
Because
Blogs
Game
I Think
Just
Knowing
Over
Play
Tend
Theatre
Think
View
Write
Writer
You
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I don't think anyone is boring, actually, if you ask the right questions and look at them the right way.
~ Mike Bartlett
Actually
Anyone
Ask
Boring
Look
Questions
Right
Right Questions
Right Way
Them
Think
Way
You
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I wrote a very bad play about Prince William when I was 23 in which he went off to the island of Iona to discover himself. It was very long, and audiences should probably be very pleased that the computer it was on blew up.
~ Mike Bartlett
About
Audiences
Bad
Blew
Computer
Discover
He
Himself
Island
Long
Off
Play
Pleased
Prince
Should
Up
Very
Which
William
Wrote
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If people are going to spend a night out at the theatre, they don't just want 'good' - we can watch box sets for that - they want it to be totally remarkable.
~ Mike Bartlett
Box
Going
Good
Just
Night
Out
People
Remarkable
Sets
Spend
Theatre
Totally
Want
Watch
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In Britain, many people love the royal family, and other people don't - but either way, we own them, and we have an opinion, and we know a lot about them. It's as though they're our own family.
~ Mike Bartlett
About
Britain
Either
Family
Know
Lot
Love
Many
Opinion
Other
Our
Own
People
Royal
Royal Family
Them
Though
Way
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In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about intervening in other countries militarily that I wouldn't normally spout over dinner. In the moment of writing the play, I genuinely changed what I thought.
~ Mike Bartlett
About
Asking
Because
Changed
Countries
Dinner
Friends
Genuinely
Moment
Normally
OK
Other
Other Countries
Over
Play
Process
Religion
Saying
Things
Thought
Were
Writing
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Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most awful, terminal nonsense.
~ Mike Bartlett
About
Appeal
Awful
Bad
Jobs
Lives
Most
Nonsense
People
Really
Still
Terminal
Theatre
Who
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One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason to exist in the world?' And you're reassured when you get little confirmations that people are pleased it did exist - whether they buy a ticket, whether it gets good reviews, whether it transfers.
~ Mike Bartlett
Any
Artist
Ask
Buy
Did
Does
Exist
Get
Gets
Good
Kind
Little
Making
People
Pleased
Question
Reason
Reviews
Something
Start
Ticket
Transfer
Whether
World
Writer
You
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Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?
~ Mike Bartlett
Behind
Capitalism
Critique
End
Few
Follow
Happens
Implicit
Left
People
Plays
Quite
Through
Who
Written
You
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That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.
~ Mike Bartlett
Characters
Doing
Look
Moment
Rather
Start
Telling
Than
Them
Writer
You
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The days of print media are numbered. Some papers will be around for a few years, but everyone knows news is going online. Then you have to ask, who pays for it? How do you deliver it? Is there any money for proper investigative reporting?
~ Mike Bartlett
Any
Around
Ask
Days
Deliver
Everyone
Few
Going
How
Investigative
Knows
Media
Money
News
Numbered
Online
Papers
Pays
Print
Proper
Reporting
Some
Then
Who
Will
Years
You
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The worst thing is where the world people experience before they go into the theatre is far more interesting than what they encounter on stage.
~ Mike Bartlett
Before
Encounter
Experience
Far
Go
Interesting
More
People
Stage
Than
Theatre
Thing
Where
World
Worst
Worst Thing
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Theatre tends to be more metaphorical and intense, as you're locked in one room and focused on one thing. Television can hop around, and you need to invest in its naturalistic reality more. But I love writing both, precisely because they're so different.
~ Mike Bartlett
Around
Because
Both
Different
Focused
Hop
I Love
Intense
Invest
Locked
Love
Metaphorical
More
Need
One Thing
Precisely
Reality
Room
Television
Tends
Theatre
Thing
Writing
You
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What I've found is if you get the right characters in the right story and put them in the right setting - and let them go - they tend to do all the exploring of the issues for you. Because people are interesting and political and funny and sad.
~ Mike Bartlett
Because
Characters
Exploring
Found
Funny
Get
Go
Interesting
Issues
People
Political
Put
Right
Sad
Setting
Story
Tend
Them
You
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What's great about theater and drama is it thrives on dialogue, and dialogue thrives on people with different points of view fighting for what they want.
~ Mike Bartlett
About
Dialogue
Different
Drama
Fighting
Great
People
Points
Theater
Thrive
View
Want
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When I can find a story that explores something that I don't know what I think, I've got a play. If I knew the answer, I would write a speech or an essay.
~ Mike Bartlett
Answer
Essay
Find
Got
I Can
I Think
Knew
Know
Play
Something
Speech
Story
Think
Would
Write
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When I got to university, I would read plays and go, 'But these are about the past. Where are the plays that I love about now?' I couldn't find them, so I started writing.
~ Mike Bartlett
About
Find
Go
Got
I Love
Love
Now
Past
Plays
Read
Started
Them
University
Where
Would
Writing
design
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When I was nine, I found a copy of 'Doctor Who: the Making of a Television Series' in the school library. It had a picture of Peter Davison on the front, and it was a formative book for me. It explained all the different departments like the script, cameras, and sets and explained how a television show is put together.
~ Mike Bartlett
Book
Cameras
Copy
Departments
Different
Doctor
Doctor Who
Explained
Formative
Found
Front
Had
How
Library
Like
Making
Me
Nine
Peter
Picture
Put
School
Script
Series
Sets
Show
Television
Television Series
Television Show
Together
Who
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