My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just have the appetite of a pigeon.

You dream to eat whatever you can and get away with it and then when you're told you have to eat, it loses its fun straight away.

Around the world there are certain marital systems, certain physical systems, political systems, social systems, and all those things are kind of turned on their head but represented in various ways within "The Lobster."

That's the process of making the film and it isn't until the world puts their eyes to it that you find out if it's creating any kind of connection at all. But every single film at some stage of the film I think, "I wonder what this is going to be?"