I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher.

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.

There was a period of cinema, in the mid-90's, that I was a huge fan of, with Heat and Seven, and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films.

You must realize that whenever you waste a second you are wasting life. If you waste a minute, you have wasted life and if you waste an hour, you have wasted life.

Beauty is a heart with wings.

The Power of the Pen is not in the color of ink it spills

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.

My goal as an actor is to grow and try different things.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.