I have a dog and a cat, and they are best friends.

You don't have to be scared of what other people are thinking. You don't need to feel judged by other people.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

I hate wasting people's time.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.