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I like four-hour movies.

I have never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you are kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there is more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it is like you are literally inside of your fans.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they are awesome, the kind of thing that if you are in for ten minutes, you are in for two hours.

I mean, I kind of remember... I am 36 now, so it is kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that is how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it is just for the night while they are in the cinema in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I do not have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

There are a lot of movies I do like to throw away. That is not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just do not work.

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that is the way they are done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I have not had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

I have done movies with a sword before. But I have not really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They are human stories about family, about life, about death.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It is a business. If they do not see it, I can think they are wrong, but I am not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

I just love movies.

There is this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they have not grossed a certain amount, then you are not bankable. I know I am not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I have done is Zodiac, and that did not perform that well.

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I do rather do modelling than movies or TV I did not like.