Quotes from Ciaran Hinds

I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.

Casting is very, very important.

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.

When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know.

Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.

I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to!

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'

Grief is exhausting.

I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'