And I'd love to work with Robert Altman.
And in film and TV, I try to base it on the words on the page and the people involved, not so much commercial reasons.
At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.
But I liked looking pretty. I looked like my sister and she's a very pretty girl.
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker.
I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.
I have a deepening respect for women. It's a lot of pain. The plucking of the eyebrows is the worst. It gets better. The first time is hard.
I spent time at a transvestites club in London and hung out there. I spent a lot of time on my own just being the character.
I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
Neil Jordan is one of my favorite directors. Not just because he's Irish and I'm Irish. In the world of directors, he's one of those guys.
Sometimes the darker stuff has greater potential for drama, it's always interesting to investigate things that you might come across in your own life.
The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
You're with the character every day. It's work bed work bed. There's not that much extra time. You are the character.
Cillian also played Rugby at Presentation Brothers College.
His nickname is Cilly
He wouldn't want to play in a "28 Days Later's" sequel
In the movie, "Cold Mountain" (2003) he worked for only one week. In the movie he is in one small scene
He greatly admires actor Liam Neeson. Looks at him as a surrogate movie dad
He studied law at University College Cork (UCC).
He played two psychopaths in 2005 as Dr. Jonathan Crane (The Scarecrow) in Batman Begins and as Jackson Ripner in Red Eye.
He has a younger brother, P?idi, a design engineer.
He has two sisters, Sile and Orla.
He has blue eyes.
He is Irish.
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