hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.

So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

We are kidding ourselves if we don't think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It's what funds governments. It's too much money to ignore.