A biography for Eoin Mackenhasn’t been written yet.
“When you watch 'Alien' you feel that they are touching stuff as opposed to 'Star Trek', where they're clearly not.”
“If you could do 'Mario Kart' as a really cool film I'd do that.”
“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 don't think I ever really thought I was good-looking.”
“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.”
“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.”
“And even when I was 18, 19, 20 in college, I did a couple of plays in the drama society, I didn't want to play the lead, I just wanted two lines, and I didn't want to be there because I didn't like it.”
“Youth is one of the most visceral times that I remember.”
“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 love Sci-Fi. It's pretty much all I watch.”
“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.”
“When you write a book, people legitimise it by actually reading the book and so it's almost okay to write another one.”
“I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!”
“I think it's much harder to make dramatic films, and much harder to create a film that's engaging, where you're actually properly looking at real characters and subtleties.”