I have a list as long as my arm but I find those lists sort of self-defeating because you start to name and then after [the interviewer] leaves the room you go 'Ah, I forgot this person or that person.' So I just don't do it anymore. Hopefully if you make work that people like, they'll get in contact with you.

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.