I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and ….

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them..

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and ….

I like traveling and I like not being part of the film world. Especially when you're in the middle of a junket, you're thinking, "I'm not doing this ….

It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think you should get too heavy. There's enough out there….

I'd just like to thank everybody who was involved in the film, especially Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhrí Conroy. And Ruaidhrí, I'm sorry that you could….

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change..

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art li….

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in on….

I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen their profession beca….

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people..

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good..

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work,….

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there..

I realize that I am never going to grow up..

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be..

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'….

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; y….

An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wai….

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy..

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke..