When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.