J.G. Farrell Quotes

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

I love Hot Fudge Sundaes; I could die for Hot Fudge Sundaes.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they should be treated, regardless of their status. And I just have a laugh.

I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.

I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.

[Yorgos Lanthimos] is really a master I feel, I really do.

Magic is at the core of myths.

If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.

If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months, at the start of the film, I was never able to do it.

Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can't quite satiate.

There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.

There are so many interpretations that this film [The Lobster] could be approached from. But Yorgos [Lanthimos] is so specifically minded, he's so clinical in his direction of the film.

I didn't work with any of the beasts [ "Fantastic Beasts"], I didn't have much green screen, but I loved working on it. I'm excited to see it myself.

It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.

I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.

Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity and investigation, to make it your own and honor what the original intent was.

I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.

As much as "The Lobster" feels like a world we recognize but not the world we live in, it's all drawn in an allegorical way from all the systems that exist.

You dream to eat whatever you can and get away with it and then when you're told you have to eat, it loses its fun straight away.

I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.

I am more comfortable doing a drama.

I just recently realized. It's very strange. But doing fight scenes with Kate [Beckinsale], I was little bit more cautious. You can go harder with a guy, which I don't mean as an insult.

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap.

I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.

When I read the script it was extraordinary and to work with Yorgos [Lanthimos] again was amazing.

I take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Harley-Davidson and dumped it.

I love my kids. I'm crazy about them.

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

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

The deciding differentiator in how you drive LOYALTY lies within your greatest asset....your people.

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get a story out, rather than writing a book.

I considered writing a book too, but I think people don't like to read, to be honest - they want to watch. People want to see crazy things, so we decided to make a film ["Selling Isobel"] instead.

I was very concerned about who was going to take my story and realize it, so I was very particular and spent a lot of time going over things with him, talking about how I wanted it to be told.

We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other.

A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.