[Captain Fantastic] it's a great story. It's one of the better scripts I've read, ever, as far as being great from beginning to end. It handles a variety of characters. You have six children who all stand on their own, they're all individuals. And it touches on a very real issue, which is the lack of cohesion and communication in America right now.
Viggo MortensenAs Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."
Viggo MortensenAdult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.
Viggo MortensenIt's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
Viggo MortensenFor 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
Viggo Mortensen