From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.
Cillian MurphyI 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.
Cillian MurphyI'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.
Cillian MurphyYou're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.
Cillian MurphyI 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.
Cillian MurphyBut television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third season - tell the story of this man. You're not under any obligation, really, to do massive expositional stuff at the beginning. You're at liberty to say, "Come with us on this journey," and, gradually, you become aware of what his motivations are, what drives him, what his weaknesses are, what his strengths are. That's what I think's sucking people into these worlds, because it is kind of like a novel, you just go really, really deep.
Cillian Murphy