I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

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.

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

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

If you take things the wrong way, be aware of which end is up

Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away?

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?

Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.

I know the Bible isn't real because it never once mentions me.