Theres such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

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.

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.

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

Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?

When was the last time someone ran their fingers through the knots of your soul?

...look up and see the madnessorganized in the stars.

Biologically I'm 25, chronologically I'm 53, psychologically it varies.

When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.