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

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.