When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.

Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.