Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, "Oh, we should film this." As opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

Good dialogue is very important.

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.