I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.

As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.

The United States has its own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.

It's frustrating when people get upset with me about not going out to DVD - the reason is that I plan to tour with the films for many, many years, not just a month or a week. Literally years. And as soon as I would put it out on DVD, it would ruin the financial possibilities of me making it a theatrical event. Whereas the book, the publishing of a screenplay, would not cause that problem.

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.