Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

As learnèd commentators viewIn Homer more than Homer knew.

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

I’m a martial artist, and I don’t train because I have a fight; I train because it’s my lifestyle, and I’ll train every day if I’m not hurt.

Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.