One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where ….

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creat….

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films..

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly g….

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more..

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great..

When you're battling against the minds of the studios and the money that can go into promoting larger budget films, it's very hard for a very small-b….

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting..

People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good..

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to p….

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a charact….

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them..

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic..

There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating..

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing..

Having agreed to play Elrond, I realized how much had to be worked out about this character: the idea of portraying someone who is immortal, for one ….

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a ki….

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. B….

I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's gre….

It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water..