Latest Elijah Wood Quotes from Interviews

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• [Macon Blair] wrote a beautiful - once it was kicking off and we were gonna make the movie - he sent me this really beautiful document on Tony [from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. It was like ruminations. "Maybe this ... I don't know ..." And I loved it.

  Elijah Wood

  Beautiful, Home, Rumination

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• There's a version of Tony [from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] that I think could be heightened. Trying to find the balance. A lot of that comes from "Who is he?" I think we've all kind of met that dude. The comic book enthusiast, or someone who gets too excited about things, but his own enthusiasm tends to alienate him. I relate to it because I've seen that guy.

  Elijah Wood

  Book, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• It was so clear from the beginning - what [Macon Blair] wanted to make [in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"].

  Elijah Wood

  Home, World, Blair

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I certainly thought of who [Tony from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] was. He was so different from anyone I've played. And it was so important for me and Macon [Blair] - this was on the page too - to not make a caricature. There's a version of Tony that I think could be heightened.

  Elijah Wood

  Home, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• Music says so much. Really specific but those are also real tonal things as well.

  Elijah Wood

  Real, Wells

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• ["I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ] really jumped off the page. And there were so many specific notes within the context of the script. Music cues, for instance.

  Elijah Wood

  Home, World, Pages

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• [Sundance] still feels significant. I don't think you can help but come here and not feel that sense of history and its significance in influencing film. And I think it still does. Some of that is based on history, but it's also based on really incredible programmers who are showcasing such an incredible variety of cinema.

  Elijah Wood

  Thinking, Doe, Cinema

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• [Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect with it and it can launch a career.

  Elijah Wood

  Careers, People, Giving

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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

  Elijah Wood

  Honor, Feels, Stills

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• 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.

  Elijah Wood

  Voice, Community, Feel Good

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• [Sundance] still feels like an incredible place for championing emerging voices and art.

  Elijah Wood

  Art, Voice, Incredibles

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I initially thought it was going to feel weird to be [on Sundance] while [the marches against now-President Donald Trump] was happening. And feel disconnected in that way that feels irresponsible. But the other side of it is that there are people here who believe the right things that are trying to make a difference with art.

  Elijah Wood

  Art, Believe, Differences

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I've been really lucky from eight years old to continue doing what I do and continue to love it. I've been able to travel all over the world. I've had experiences at my age that a lot of people haven't. So, you know, I've missed out on certain things, but in other ways I've gained, so it balances itself out.

  Elijah Wood

  Eight, Years, People

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and there are great writers. It just takes a little bit more perseverance and a little bit more time to find [them].

  Elijah Wood

  Perseverance, Believe, Directors

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.

  Elijah Wood

  Memories, Lessons, Who We Are

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.

  Elijah Wood

  Dream, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• The question that comes up a lot is, if you had the chance to erase your memory of something specific, what would you erase? And my answer has always been, I wouldn't erase anything, personally. In some ways, I almost wouldn't want to erase anything from the public consciousness, either, for the same reason.

  Elijah Wood

  Memories, Answers, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I love romantic comedies. I love romantic movies. I'm kind of a sucker for them, and, sort of end up crying at the end of them all, like a child.

  Elijah Wood

  Children, Romantic Love, Comedy

  "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Interview: Elijah Wood". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. April 2004.

• The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

  Elijah Wood

  Able, Too Good To Be True, Film

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I think people would be up in arms. I think we would most likely have a similar situation to what happened in the 60s. I don't know if it would be as violent, I think it would be difficult to say that. But I think that, from what I can understand, our nation as a whole is largely against the war as it stands.

  Elijah Wood

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it.

  Elijah Wood

  Thinking, People, Troops

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.

  Elijah Wood

  Intense Moments, Solitude, Peppers

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human tale, and a character study as well.

  Elijah Wood

  War, Character, Views

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.

  Elijah Wood

  War, Thinking, Radio News

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.

  Elijah Wood

  Thinking, Comedy, Horror

  Source: screenrant.com