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

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

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.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

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

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

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.