I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.