Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'

For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.

Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.

I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.