I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes.

I'm part of the Ipod generation. I got 10,000 tracks from all over the world.

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

I don't live in Ireland, I live in London with my girlfriend; and it's because of the globalization of our planet, it's not necessary to live in Los Angeles to be a successful and any country is just an airplane ride away. If there's a director who wants to meet me or if there's something I have to do, I can just hop on an airplane - the world's small now.