And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.