What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.