I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.

I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.