You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

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 know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.