Quotes from Eoin Macken

I love Sci-Fi. It's pretty much all I watch.

I love science fiction just because of the scope of what it can be.

You never know with a new show. It takes awhile for shows to find their feet and for people to connect with it.

I go through periods where I feel very confident about stuff but other periods that are insecure... I find doing different stuff removes the responsibility of focussing on one thing.

I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!

A lot of fashion photographers are telling a story with their pictures.

In a modelling shoot you are trying to play a character, a role. There are models who are dead, who have no expression whatever. I think you need to use your physicality, your sense of humour and your emotion when you model.

And then modelling, because it pays you really well and you get to travel, I was forced to get used to the idea of standing in front of a camera and having six or seven people watching me and that actually allowed me to loosen up from an acting point of view.

When you're in college, you meet somebody that you think is a little bit arrogant and cocky, and you don't like them because they have this attitude about them that seems grating, and then you realize that they have their issues and this whole other side going on.

Merlin' was awesome, but the costumes would drive you insane. Every day, you'd get into chain mail and wear 30 pounds of that stuff.

I love auditioning on tape because you have the time and the freedom to work on it, a little bit. A lot of film is slightly dependent on what your composition is and what your lighting is.

I'd never properly done pilot season in America. I did it for just a couple of weeks, a couple of years ago. Usually, you get pilot scripts and the initial script quality isn't there.

You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.

I was just fascinated with the brain and the mind, and I found psychology engaging for writing about people, and that fed into my interest in cinema.

All I've wanted to do is write. In school I just wanted to be a writer but I was afraid to be a writer because I felt I couldn't. It didn't really feel like my writing was interesting enough, so getting a book published was a huge kick.

I love acting, but I hate being in front of camera - I get really awkward. I hate being the centre of attention.

I learnt how acting is more about listening to the other person; it is about reaction. You learn to be a foil, and that helped when it came to directing.

I don't think I ever really thought I was good-looking.

With acting, you have to put in the groundwork, then maybe you'll get lucky. It's a slog but it's also fun.

Because if someone writes something and they have decided this is what it is, it's my job to make it work unless it's way out of left field.

Every part of it is important; the film comes alive when you edit it, the film comes alive when you write it, the film comes alive when you act it, and the same with the directing. They're all the most important part at the time and that's why I enjoy doing it, because you're creating a story and every part is a very integral part of it.

When you watch 'Alien' you feel that they are touching stuff as opposed to 'Star Trek', where they're clearly not.

My novel, 'Kingdom of Scars', is a coming-of-age story.

When I left college at 22, I went to LA to study acting after being introduced to an acting coach called Vincent Chase. Later, I got an agent over there.