Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.

After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.

Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

Is it difficult to recognize spring when the air is dancing with joy and the flowers are blooming bright colorful smiles?

-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

Your mind is a powerful tool. Learn how to harness this power and your life will be filled with great things.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

Do you know who will be in charge of health care? The IRS. You thought getting audited was bad? Wait until your next prostate exam.

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was only because he was laughing so hard.

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.