Casting is very, very important.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

I know I don't go looking for directors.

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

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.

The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted

I'm not a comic person at all.