I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.

I love it when a plan comes together

We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'

I gravitate toward women.

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.

I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.