I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

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.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.