You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?