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

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

Hollywood always chooses young and beautiful men and throws them into enormous, highly expensive toy-like movies, and I think sometimes it's hard for the maturity of the craft to emerge in that kind of glare.

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

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.