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.

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.

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.

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

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.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure then believe.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.

If you are not a brand, you are a commodity.