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.
I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.
I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!
My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.
It's like two years straight out of your life doing a film. It's very enjoyable, especially working with the guys, but I kind of like the idea of traveling and growing, and developing as a writer and as a filmmaker.
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 realize that I am never going to grow up.
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, and they look down on people who do.
Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.
When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.
'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.
My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to.
I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.
I can go anywhere. In fact, for 'Three Billboards,' I was just getting on trains around America. I wrote everywhere from New York to New Mexico. I always write with pencil and paper.
I don't write all the time. But if I'm writing something, I'll just bang into it every day until it's finished. I write pretty quickly.
I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.
I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.
I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.
I loved 'The Master' a lot. I'm not going to get to work with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best around, I think.
I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.
