I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.
You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.
If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.
Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.
I love the Beatles.
