Casting is very, very important.

Grief is exhausting.

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

I know I don't go looking for directors.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

I'm not a comic person at all.

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

My soul is still Irish.

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.