Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.

When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

Kids before they're 7 or 8 are like little manic obsessives. They become completely hooked on things and they're slightly crazy.