I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.