When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

Having agreed to play Elrond, I realized how much had to be worked out about this character: the idea of portraying someone who is immortal, for one thing; plus the fact he is noble, wise, powerful, good - and beautiful! I began to think that he was altogether impossible to play!

I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.