'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

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.

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

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.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.