I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Around the world there are certain marital systems, certain physical systems, political systems, social systems, and all those things are kind of turned on their head but represented in various ways within "The Lobster."

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits ... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.

An actor said recently that, unless you're a parent, you shouldn't play a parent in a film. I don't know who said it, but I disagree. I understand that maybe there are aspects that you don't understand, or maybe this actor or actress had a really strong recent experience with having their first or second or third born child. I don't know. As a dad, I get that. I get that there is no love like it. But, at the same time, love is love.