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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.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.