"My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much."

“Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.”

Source : "Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of 'The Eclipse'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.

“Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts - to break cycles of violence and forge new pathways that say, I would like to make sure we live as a community where there is justice, security, and development for all members. At the end of the day, peace is an investment; it is something you create by investing in a way of life and monitoring where your resources go.”

“We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.”

“When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?”

“When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.”

“Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.”

Source : Thomas Sackville Dorset (Earl of), Sir Thomas Overbury (1760). “Prolusions; or, Select pieces of antient poetry,--compil'd with great care from their several originals: and offer'd to the publick as specimens of the integrity that should be found in the editions of worthy authors, in three parts ... with a preface ...”, p.64

“I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.”

“I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.”