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 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.
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But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
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I think I have a gift… but I haven’t really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
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People 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.
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In fact, I’m trying to think – what else would you rather do, you know? I can’t actually think of another job that I’d rather do.
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He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
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Life 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.
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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.
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I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.
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My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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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 anyway.
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I was probably about fourteen I think, and probably like every boy who’s fourteen that writes a song, it was about a girl. It was about a girl who I really liked, but she didn’t like me as much as I liked her. I think most guys go through that.
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I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.
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The 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.
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I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I’d like to direct rather than act.
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Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
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