It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.

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

Here's where we are, this is what's happening. So do something, or get out of the kitchen.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

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