Occupation: Actor Birth: April 25, 1980
Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music..
The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely..
Dirk Gently [from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from the universe t….
I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And ….
Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in o….
[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry..
[Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues..
The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with oth….
To me, Elijah Wood is one of the best actors of my generation. He's so incredibly present and in the moment, when you're working with him, and then w….
You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical..
The great thing about the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that there is so much more to be revealed. There are questions about wha….
[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together..
We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah ….
Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability, and you get th….
One of the joys of this show [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that each of those characters could be starring in their own show. It's onl….
I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, re….
Max [Landis] writes in quite a heightened way, specifically for Dirk. There's a rhythm and a specific speed to it, and it was very easy to learn beca….
I think Dirk [Gently] thinks that he's a brilliant detective, but he's the worst detective, ever. He does have this particular skill, which I suppose….
I couldn't have asked for a better acting partner and a better human being to work with. We have to work very closely together, and I felt, in our sc….
I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolu….
I'd seen Elijah [Wood], when I was a little boy, in The Good Son. And then, I was a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings. It took awhile to get over tha….