I like naming characters.

She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the - Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.