I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

I've been very lucky.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.