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" Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. "

John Rhys-Davies

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" How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script? "

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" Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making. "

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" Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you. "

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" There's nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain in Bulgaria. Boy, does it get cold. "

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" 'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves. "

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" Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational. "

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" 'Shogun' was a mini-series, so even though it went on television, we filmed it like a movie. "

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" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "

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" I hate being out of work! "

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" I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage. "

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" When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in. "

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" Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment. "

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" Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. "

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" No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people. "

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" The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer. "

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" Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful. "

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" I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that. "

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" A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books. "

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" To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion. "

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" People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy. "

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" The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story. "

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" When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question. "

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" Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God. "

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" I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with. "

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" I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold War ended up liberating. "

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" The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors. "

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" When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor. "

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" I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it. "

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