In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.