Roddy Doyle

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.

It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.