I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

I was not a very fearful kid, really.

No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

The medical operations are so challenging because they're so technical, as well. I assumed before we started that we would do the classic thing, when it comes to the operations, that we would do all of these inserts with real doctors.

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, Remember, it's all about likeability.