Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

Every director is completely different.

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civilisation.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

The way something looks is the last thing we figure out

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

I think that people have great anger over what happened in 2008 in terms of the economy.

A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash often persuasive, almost always wrong.

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.