I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

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

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

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

I want to come across as a positive person.

I avoided nudity unless a film couldnt be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.