Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds
Ciarán Hindsis an Irish film, television and stage actor. He has built a reputation as a versatile character actor appearing in such high-profile films as Road to Perdition, The Phantom of the Opera, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, The Woman in Black, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and Frozen...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth9 February 1953
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.
To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.
I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.
I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.
I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.
I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.
We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.
You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.