I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

I do enjoy working with writers.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.