Quotes About Growth

I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.

I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.

Even though I've acted in many films, I have directed for the first time, and I will always consider myself a student.

My directing style has changed over the years. I allow things to breathe a lot more.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience.

There is so much I'd love to do in this industry. I'm honestly interested in directing even a little more so than acting.

I had a very embarrassing time acting extremely badly at university, which is when directing suddenly became so attractive.

I used to get defensive when people asked me, 'Is it the control that you like about directing?' I used to say, 'No!' But now I'm older, I say, 'Yeah, it absolutely is!'

I think we're going in the right direction.

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

Life begins at 40. I could attempt writing. Life is taking me into different directions.

My career has taken so many directions.

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions. That's kind of what happened with me and the Eastside Boyz. They wanted to do different things than I wanted to do, so we separated.

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

I just really want to continue to play those roles where I really have something to do, and mainly, above all, work with people that I can learn from - directors I think are so great.

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

I get to meet different directors and different people.

No matter who I fight, I'm going to be at a disadvantage in the experience department.