Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.
Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.
I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
My God! Middle Earth does exist!
Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.
I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.
I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.
I'm always intrigued by new challenges and things that I've never done before and new experiences. It sounds so simple, but the primary interest is just something that's good and instills within me some kind of gut feeling that feels like something that I'm passionate and excited about, and there can be multiple variables that can instill that. It can be simply a filmmaker, it can just be a character, it can just be the script, or a combination of all those things. But, I'm always just looking to do things that I've never done before, primarily.
On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that.
So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!
Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to be a part of a vision that I love, or a script that I love. I find exciting and gratifying.
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!
I think new experiences are extremely important. I think it's really important to constantly challenge yourself. Comfort is not a good thing. It's good to take yourself out of your comfort zone and to look for new challenges.
The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.
I just got called Nigel.
I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out.
Geeks are the coolest people.
The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.
It still feels like an honor to bring something [on Sundance].
I'm just always looking for something that I've never done, or something that feels unique and special. A lot of it is gut and what you emotionally connect with, and that can be a variety of different things.
[Macon Blair] wrote a beautiful - once it was kicking off and we were gonna make the movie - he sent me this really beautiful document on Tony [from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. It was like ruminations. "Maybe this ... I don't know ..." And I loved it.
