We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.

- Conor Mcpherson

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

- Conor Mcpherson

When people are out of their comfort zone, it’s more dramatic, more prone to have more entertaining experiences, get into fights. That’s the dramatic…

- Conor Mcpherson

The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.

- Conor Mcpherson

I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.

- Conor Mcpherson

I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the…

- Conor Mcpherson

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

- Conor Mcpherson

The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I…

- Conor Mcpherson

I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes ar…

- Conor Mcpherson