Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

I'm not a comic person at all.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are sort of tied. The Italians - I don't know where it stops. No nation can claim "We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are." Because it's going on everywhere.

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

If all you've got to do is a couple of lines, dear Jesus, don't let them down. Other people are taking responsibility.