When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.

I always approach film as a fan.

I'm not going to talk about my private life with a total stranger, unless I feel like I need to. Why would I? I don't.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

I think the fact that us as a race still continues to be very tribal and we haven't really moved away from that over hundreds and hundreds of years of experience.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?