Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
BILLY BOYDHobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
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 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 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…
BILLY BOYDHe [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
BILLY BOYDI 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.
BILLY BOYDI think I have a gift… but I haven’t really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
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 BOYDIn 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.
BILLY BOYDI think Scotland has some great stories.
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 BOYDMy worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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 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 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 BOYDThe club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
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