00:00I think writing is actually easy. You just stare at a blank page until blood comes out of your
00:07forehead. I do find it hard to write, to get myself to do the work. I would leave it so
00:11late.
00:12It was almost unachievable for a deadline and I would have chest pains. And then at the point of
00:18collapse, I would sit down and write it and do it that way. And only then. I think it was
00:22Stephen
00:22King that said, when you're inspired, write. When you're uninspired, read. And I would take that
00:27with like film and TV. I would, if I'm writing something, I'll always try and watch loads of
00:32stuff in that genre to make me like kind of get, just keep in that mind frame of what I'm
00:37trying to
00:38do. Yeah. You try and think like Aaron Sorkin and he was always said, you know, forget the right pen
00:43or the right time and just write anywhere in the hotel room, on the road, in your car, just do
00:47it
00:48because you got a deadline. And that can suddenly start to feel, you know, like a job. One of the
00:53things that I have to do is remind myself that I used to do this for fun. You know,
00:58all of you for the most part have worked on some very Irish stories. Why is that? You can't really
01:03escape your own identity. Even when scripts are set in America, like I can see things about my
01:10Irishness that like come through even when I'm not trying to do it as well, which is kind of
01:14interesting. And I actually think Irish people watch a lot of films. They watch a lot of stuff. A lot
01:19of
01:19people have seen like all the Oscar nominated films. I don't know if that's because we're
01:23a small country and we're curious and we're interested in the outside world. But we do
01:27tend to be lovers of story as well as storytellers.
01:31Definitely shines through on a global stage.
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