Clare Dunne

Because at that point, I had done the thing of getting funding from Screen Ireland for script development and stuff myself.

But then it kind of was out of my hands, I guess.

It's weird, but you have to be ready to... When you're saying your idea to people...

About anything, actually, maybe.

I feel like there's this moment when an idea is ready to share.

Like, don't share until you're absolutely really feeling strong.

Like, you feel really like, yeah, this is the idea.

It's not that it has to be complete and totally fleshed out, but that, like, it's got this, I don't know, you've got this faith in it that even if that person, like, laughs in your face, you'll just be like, okay, yeah, no, I know you think that's crazy, but actually...

Yeah, this is the thing on me.

Like, I remember I was dating a guy at the time that I only thought of herself.

I think I only thought of it a few months before.

And we were walking along the canal in Dublin.

He's actually a really nice guy.

It's nothing personal against him.

But I just said the pitch of the film, you know, and this is back in 2014.

So, my God, was it unbelievable then to conceptualize self-building?

Like, people were really, like, not awake to this 10 years ago or 12 years ago.

So I just said this idea.

He kind of was like, I mean, that'd be impossible.

Like that could never happen.