“The second-grade films - where are they? No more are they made, and ye...” — Patrick Kavanagh Quote

“The second-grade films - where are they? No more are they made, and yet they were by far the best films for holding hands at, and wasn't this always the main purpose of the cinema?”

“Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.”

“How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.”

“I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.”

“I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?'”

“We need cinema to know each other and love each other.”