"I think that if you're brought up in England and you're my age, it was something that was kind of on the news every day, the troubles in Ireland, and you kind of lived with it. I remember going to Belfast for a while during the troubles. You forget how recently it was a rough place, it was a war zone really."
"All the fear and trepidation, the danger in the movie, it's within the characters, so it's a pleasure acting in a role like this. It was an ambitious thing to tie all the elements together and to bring them back on an emotional way. I was hugely excited by the posibilities and that's why I have done it."