Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
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Adapt and overcome.
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
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In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
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'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.