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People have to find ways of explaining the work.
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
My tips for any budding actors would be to go out and see as much as you possibly can. Find the people you want to work with and be ready to hopefully make them want to work with you.
When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.
Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular - were actually moved by the work but were disturbed by the feelings it evoked, so they attacked it. Some people find the realm of my work quite uncomfortable.