It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

I'd just like to thank everybody who was involved in the film, especially Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhrí Conroy. And Ruaidhrí, I'm sorry that you couldn't be here tonight but I hope next time, if they let you into the country.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think you should get too heavy. There's enough out there, in the world, with violence. I think that comedy lightens the heaviness [of the world].