Quotes

When we made Flick we thought "oh yeah a movie about drugs everybody will be interested in that" but drug movies don't really sell. There's ferocious competition, Irish films are competing with the best of the rest of the world, not Hollywood because we don't really compete with them, it's a choice between the next Wong Kar-Wai movie or an Irish movie. Everyone is pitted against each other. The American's dominate but the machine is just so vast now. It'd be nice on the next one to actually have a million bucks (pause) and Sean Penn". - On drug themed Irish films

[on making his second film] Only 20 per cent of directors get to make a second feature, so I've been really lucky.