Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

Everything is all right, When you’re here, When you’re right next to me, When my hand is in yours, Don’t leave me, Don’t leave me empty handed.

The only reality is the grace of repentance.

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

The truth shall set your soul free.

If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.

All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

Smiling resets your mood.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.

Know when to lie to your kids.