Hugo Weaving

There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.