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. – Cillian Murphy
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. – Cillian Murphy
I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker. – Cillian Murphy
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. – Cillian Murphy
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. – Cillian Murphy
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. – Cillian Murphy
What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information. – Cillian Murphy
The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it. – Cillian Murphy
I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there. – Cillian Murphy
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it. – Cillian Murphy
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. – Cillian Murphy
