I think Scotland has some great stories.
BILLY BOYDI think Scotland has some great stories.
BILLY BOYDActing, music, painting… it’s very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.
BILLY BOYDPeople are scared to make something that doesn’t look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get ‘Four Weddings And A Funeral’ made again and again.
BILLY BOYDI 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.
BILLY BOYDA 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 Battle of the Five Armies – it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.
BILLY BOYDI 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 anyway.
BILLY BOYDHe [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
BILLY BOYDI think the ears are a strange look for me. Quite big. But I loved the hair down to my shoulders. It felt right. I’m thinking of letting my hair go.
BILLY BOYDSometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
BILLY BOYDMy worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
BILLY BOYDLife in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. Its not glam.
BILLY BOYDI’d like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace… and I think that’ll probably do.
BILLY BOYDThe innocent on a quest, the pretender, an inanimate object that holds evil – it’s really strange that these themes are there in so many different countries’ folklore.
BILLY BOYDHobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
BILLY BOYDI really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I’d like to direct rather than act.
BILLY BOYDThe club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
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