Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

When asked what profession they like least, most people will give the obvious answer: clowns.

Bad and bad and bad and bad move... and move and move just another checkmate...

Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.

Any private security is a joke in a country where youre up against your own government.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience.

Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.