Eoin Macken

“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.”