Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.

I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.

There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

My motto is: more good times.