You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.