That's the process of making the film and it isn't until the world puts their eyes to it that you find out if it's creating any kind of connection at all. But every single film at some stage of the film I think, "I wonder what this is going to be?"

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

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.

I have hope. I have no expectations.

Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap.

Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can't quite satiate.