He pretends he's from a tough part of Dublin but he's not.

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

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

We'll have to be tough in Dublin. We'll need to have a strong physical presence because the Irish are going to come at us hard. But we're more than capable.

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.

It's a turning point in history, the birth of a nation, and the death almost of a culture,