Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

You would be surprised how many directors don't know what they want. They might not know what they want until they see it, they might know what they want but no idea how to get it out of the actor, then you've both got a problem.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking in public about what you do in private and who you do it with. It's not that they [my significant others] don't want to be identified as gay, but that they don't want to be identified as ... with me.

In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.