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Generally speaking, the misfit's story is easier to tell.

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I remember a Q&A I did in Wales where there were five people in the auditorium.

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I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it's there: you've got a note.

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Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.

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I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.

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Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.

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As far as the international industry is concerned, I don't think people care at all where you are from - if the work interests them.

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I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.

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That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

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Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Director

Born: January 26th, 1966

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