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

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….

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 realize that I am never going to grow up..

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

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work..

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right..

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….

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

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

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..

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 ….

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

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….

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

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,….

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 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….

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

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 ….