There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
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