(on playing Jack Slevin in The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)) I was, as always, wary of taking on the role. This was a man whose soul was torn, and once you`ve adopted that kind of internal conflict, it`s difficult to quiet.
(On Scorsese) Martin doesn`t have to convince me about anything. I can only say that I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Marty once in their lifetime. If you get it twice, it`s a privilege that you don`t necess...
On whether or not he will act in films more often in the future: "Nothing happened over the course of making Gangs of New York that made me think, `Why don`t I do this more often?`"
The thing that Konstantin Stanislavski lays out is how you do the thing the first time every time - 1,000 times. That`s the idea you`re always searching for.
I came from the educated middle class but I identified with the working classes. Those were the people I looked up to. The lads whose fathers worked on the docks or in shipping yards or were shopkeepers. I knew that I wasn`t part of that world, but I was ...