"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's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to."

"I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends."

"There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions."

"I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go."

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"It is a quiet truth that we do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A mindful spirit recognizes that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement."