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"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."
"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there."
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"I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion."
"I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along."
"I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are."
"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"
"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
"I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago."
"I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level."
"At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country."
"People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing."
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