Banville, John Filmography

• The Sea
  2013, role: writer
• The Sea
  2013, role: writer
• Albert Nobbs
  2011, role: writer
• The Last September
  1999, role: writer
• Seascape
  1994, role: writer
• Reflections
  1984, role: writer

Famous quotes by John Banville:

"The English did many terrible things but one great thing you did was give us this extraordinary language ... and it works for us."

"I didn't envy the judges their task this year. Obviously the novel is far from dead."

"the public adulation for Saturday was worrying because here was a 9/11 book that everyone was praising to the sky, making into a bestseller, and it was not a good book for McEwan, who is a very, very good writer. But maybe I shouldn't have been so pompous."

"I'm very much against the notion of the Great Man, the Great Figure who is telling us all how to behave. Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed."

"Someone said the best gift a man can give his son is to die young. When you think about it, it's true. I was in my early 30s and I did feel freed by it, awful as it is to confess."

"one does try."

"The Sea"

"This is a great surprise and a great pleasure. Any one of these books could have won. To my colleagues I say just hang around and it will come. I have hung around for many years."

"Never Let Me Go."

"Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha."