I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible. It's not necessarily because of the work itself. I just feel the need for a period of regeneration afterwards. Like leaving a field fallow when you've grazed too much on it. I feel depleted.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.