Stephen Rea

“I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.”

“I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.”

“I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.”

“I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.”

“At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of t...”

“If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.”