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

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.

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.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

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

Film-making is a physically hard job.

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.