I called Nic Pizzolatto and he said, "No, no. You're in it the whole way through." That was fun to shoot [in The Lobster]. I had a few scenes in that show that were some of my favorite all-time scenes to be in.

On "[Total] Recall" also [sets were extraordinary], but this was next-level. They built two or three blocks of midtown Manhattan in 1926 and it was inhabited with 400 extras and 24 Model Ts and a train system and all that kind of nonsense. It was madness. You would walk into shops and they would have the goods from that period, it was just huge.

I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

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

Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.