Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.