You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.