Epic Journey Quotes

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar's world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Everyone on 'The Goonies' and everyone on 'Lord Of The Rings' knew that we were a part of something that was going to be big.

A thriller or an action movie would entice me. A sportsperson or a musician's biopic sounds exciting, too.

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

When I finished reading '100 Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I got really sad. I thought, 'This will never happen for me, for the first time, ever again.' Then I opened 'Beauty Is a Wound.' It's a completely different story and writing style, but it has a similar place in my heart now.

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

My favorite group growing up was 'The Hobbit.' It was the first book I actually finished. One of those adventure things that takes you to that land and it will forever hold a special place in my heart. I am not a huge book reader.

To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.

I either like reading fun war-based sci-fi, books about the lives of chefs, or dry historical non-fiction.

When you go watch "The Lord Of The Rings," you don't just buy a bag of popcorn, and go sit in the movie theater to watch where covetous people in our hearts deceive us, and then walk out the theater. That's the message that may be in that movie.

To play Khal Drogo was phenomenal, and I wished there was more stuff he could have done. I'm going to miss that character.

I suppose I prefer kind of epic dramas like, oh, I don't know... 'Lawrence Of Arabia' or 'Apocalypse Now'; those are the movies that I have a tendency to be most fond of.

I will die trying to do another 'Baahubali' kind of film. It's not a film that can be easily replicated. I believe only Rajamouli has the experience and vision to handle projects on such scale.

I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and that you're part of it. You don't want to be aware of how it's being done; you just want it to feel really seamless.

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.