To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

My mother taught me to read.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.