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

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

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].