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In The Acting Game, You Spend A Long Time Fighting Against What The Director Perceives You To Be. And Half The Time The Directors Don't Know.

The Vatican Has Tried To Condemn 'the Magdalene Sisters' As A Pack Of Lies And That I've Made It All Up - I Wish I Was That Good A Dramatist - And In Terms Of Public Relations, That Was The Daftest Thing They Ever Did.

It's Not So Much That I Want To Direct But That I Have To. When I Write Something It Terrifies Me That If I Give It To Someone Else And It Doesn't Turn Out As It Could Have Done, I'd Feel As If I'd Orphaned My Baby.

In Bringing The Subject Of Religious Oppression To A Wider Audience, I Didn't Just Want To Kick The Catholic Church But To Poke A Finger In The Throat Of Theocracy And To Let It Be Known That People Shouldn't Tolerate This Anymore.

The Acting I Got Into By Doing What We Call Pantomime, When I Was Sixteen. And, There Were Loads Of Very Pretty Girls In The Show. I Realized; I Found Out Very Early On, That The Lead Comic Gets The Girl. So, That Was Cool. When I Went To University, I Studied Economic Social History. And Drama. That Kind Of Got Me Into It. My Main Passion Was To Make Films. It Was Never To Be An Actor. At That Time, There Weren't Many Opportunities For A Working Class Scottish Actor. It Was Kind Of An English Thing. And It Required A Certain Mannered Cerebral Acting Style That I Couldn't Relate To.