In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.

I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.