“I was off doing my artist thing at the time,” says the director. “I was really enjoying college tours and cabaret. Then suddenly a Nicole Kidman film project falls in my lap. Fortuitous, really. I had a 20-minute conversation on the phone with her, telling her how much the script moved me, and then we were shooting – just like that. We didn’t pal around a lot. She has a regal quality. But you immediately see the overly tall 11-year-old somewhere. Those are my people. They go in to theatre because they don’t quite fit in anywhere else.”

- From an interview posted at irishtimes.com