Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.