Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

- Billy Boyd

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

- Billy Boyd

He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.

- Billy Boyd

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

- Billy Boyd

I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the world. The …

- Billy Boyd

Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If…

- Billy Boyd

A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Bat…

- Billy Boyd

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos …

- Billy Boyd

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

- Billy Boyd