I just got back from New York, and I realized in New York, it's very difficult to hear a New York accent. It's almost impossible, actually - everybody seems to speak like they're from the Valley or something. When I grew up, you could tell what street in Dublin someone's from by the way they talked.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

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.

It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

I do enjoy working with writers.