I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be your best work, and that's necessary. I think in this business, you really have to be forward-looking the whole time. I think nostalgia is sort of the death knell for any artist.

We were able to shoot in a lot of the locations where the mission actually happened and these guys existed, so that was kind of very affecting. We had a Czech crew and a lot of Czech actors. There's a great deal of authenticity to the project [Anthropoid], and Sean [Ellis] was very anxious that that was the case from the beginning.

I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.

Actors' careers are random with a capital "R."

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.