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 BOYDBut you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
BILLY BOYDHobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
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 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 BOYDI’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.
BILLY BOYDMy worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
BILLY BOYDI think I have a gift… but I haven’t really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
BILLY BOYDFor 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 BOYDI 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.
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 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 think Scotland has some great stories.
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 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 BOYDStrangely 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 that’s not a Pippin thing to do, I don’t know what is.
BILLY BOYDTo play one of the main characters in it, it’s not the kind of thing you don’t do. Oh, I’d rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings…
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