I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

My cat can eat a whole watermelon.

A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

To build yourself is to add value to your life

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

I spent time on set in New York and Berlin sitting next to Steven Spielberg while he worked, which was the biggest thrill of my life.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.