I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know.
When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'
That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.
Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.
Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.
You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.
In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
