Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

Grief is exhausting.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

My soul is still Irish.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

Casting is very, very important.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.