You hope that some day a part will come along and you can do your stuff and people will go, 'oh that's good.' I just got very lucky.
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I'd love to do something funny. Our work often deals with tough subjects. You do your research and it can be quite dark. So after all these years of drama, I'd like to go to work someday with the sole intention of making people laugh.
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I would hope that the Government would still support those small, struggling independent theatre companies and also maybe look to the built architecture of the theaters because we can't let them get into disrepair. They are part of the fabric of the country.
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I was really proud of the response to the first series of 'Blood.' Right from the get-go I knew it was a really good yarn and that it would have a chance if we got it right.
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Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you've any humility at all, you'll take his advice.
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When you're young and a teenager, there's an air of excitement about living with a time when you have to grasp life as much as you can because it may be taken from you.
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I am on a mural in Belfast with 'Floating up the Lagan in a bubble' on it. You know you have made it when you have got a mural.
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There's no doubt that New York held its temptations for any writer - it still does.
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Any mother watching her son achieve his dreams shares that success at some level.
