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

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.

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.

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

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.

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