If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

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

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

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

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

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