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

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

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.

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 even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.