If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.
— William Kircher
Tolkien fans reacted so strongly to 'Lord Of The Rings' as a franchise because it stayed true; the heart of it was true to the book.
The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.
It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning.
Films are always different from books.
For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!
Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies going on.
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.
