Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

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.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

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

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.