When I read the script it was extraordinary and to work with Yorgos [Lanthimos] again was amazing.

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

I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.

I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.

I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. And I don't mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but it does kind of have a higher awareness emotionally.

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

I think that is what you want to do as a cinemagoer - to experience something fully. Some things don't let you experience them fully. It may be your own preordained prejudice where you can't experience them fully. But when you come out of the cinema having felt, thought, and experienced your way through two hours, that is a really cool thing.