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

If all you've got to do is a couple of lines, dear Jesus, don't let them down. Other people are taking responsibility.

Casting is very, very important.

I know I don't go looking for directors.

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

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.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are sort of tied. The Italians - I don't know where it stops. No nation can claim "We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are." Because it's going on everywhere.