My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

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.

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

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

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].

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

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