165 Quotes by Cillian Murphy

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

Neil Jordan is one of my favorite directors. Not just because he's Irish and I'm Irish. In the world of directors, he's one of those guys.

I am very different to Colin Farrell. I admire him tremendously. We are both Irish and are both the same age,

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.

For me, this is a film about people under pressure. That's what it fundamentally boils down to.

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

He obviously knows through his movies how to exploit terror, and he seems to be able to investigate fears that we all have and exploit them or magnify them. There's a particular way of doing films like this. There's a particular way to manipulate the audience to get sort of a reaction out of them, and he can do that.

He's a wonderful, beautiful misfit, and he tends to trust and fall in love with people immediately.

I think one of those comes around once in every career, that type of role. I play a character called Kitten Brady, who everyone knows is a transvestite. That's part of it, but it's not the whole story.