My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.