I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

I'm very much for strengthening our industry at home. It's great now there's a lot of work happening but I think with Irish film in particular, the views were starting to get a little stereotypical and we were pigeonholing ourselves a little bit. We needed to get out of that.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

I remember being on Atonement and it felt very right to be there. There was so much excitement every day. I remember very vividly how it felt to be a child on a film set, and that is actually really important to hold on to for as long as you continue to make films.