Fiona Shaw

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

One moment cannot be the most important.