 Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy. |
| The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need. |
| I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing. |
| The End of the Affair is almost like a play. |
| It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated. |
| No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went around killing people. It was called Travelers, and it was made as an independent film. |
| Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling. |
| I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like. |
| It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days. |
| I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20. |
| I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well. |
| For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy. |
