I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.

The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than just finishing off the story, it's like a whole new adventure all of its own. I'm very excited about it.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.

The thing about watching a show about the Iraq war, especially for an American audience, is that it reminds them they're responsible in some way.

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.