Quotes from Elijah Wood

As much as my primary vocation is that of an actor, if anything, I feel like I am more excited about filmmaking in general, so it's not always a specific role that I'm attracted to, but rather an entire piece that I want to be a part of.

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

It would be an amazing superpower to be able to make every person you meet feel better about the thing that makes them insecure.

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

My God! Middle Earth does exist!

It feels kind of good to be [on Sundance]. There is a sense of unification and community and voices rising together, and that all feels good.

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

It still feels like an honor to bring something [on Sundance].

When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your family.

The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don't want to see it; I'd rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don't want to see people embodying those people.

If you're innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world, and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.

Many of my friends are not in the film industry, and I feel like it's healthy. It's not totally by choice. It is, perhaps, people I connect with.

After 'Rings,' I had two feelings: One, I immediately didn't want to work on anything on a large scale. I wanted to work on something really small after I was finished filming the first three. But the other thing was that I had a continuing interest in working on things that were really different.

This bizarre industry presents so many paths of temptation. If you don't have some kind of foundation, typically from family, then it will be difficult to deal with.

My bucket list tends to relate to travel or eating.

What's so strong about 'Game of Thrones' is that it's a character and political drama, with a sort of fantasy backdrop.

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.