I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.