Cillian: I think there's such a thing as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me it originally came out through music, then segued into acting and came out through there. I always needed to get up and perform.
Chillian: Too many filmmakers today are trying to put their work into a box. I can't stand that! Making movies is a lot of work. Let's take some risks.
Chillian: The people that I admire are like Liam Neeson and Brendan Gleeson (his co-stars in Breakfast on Pluto), who manage to work in those big studio movies and yet come back and make very intelligent, very worthwhile smaller films.