People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.

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.

I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.

Family. Couldn't live with them, couldn't run a stake through them.

Be careful of the lie you believe about yourself, sooner or later, you will be convinced of it.

What makes you different us what makes you stronger. You are a masterpiece uniquely designed by God. You can have tremendous victories, love, and abundance.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

If I could have any job I would be a cat... but that's not something I'm supposed to talk about in public.

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.

Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.