You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in.

I definitely think the first works best.

It's such a terrifying thing when mobs of people get together and persecute foreigners.

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.

Big things have small beginnings.