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Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

— Stephen Rea

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.

— Chris Owen

The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and 'Evelyn' being another.

— Pierce Brosnan

My early films were very European based. It was 'As It Is In Heaven,' 'Together,' they were great international successes, but then I did, I think, 60 movies or something.

— Michael Nyqvist

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

— Lenny Abrahamson

My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.

— Eddie Redmayne

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

— Van Morrison

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.

— Ciaran Hinds

I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left.

— Marc Wallice

Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.

— John Gregory Dunne

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.

— John Patrick Shanley