There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. ↗
It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house. ↗
The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say. ↗
They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none. ↗
It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place. ↗
I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away. ↗