Famous quotes by Hugo Weaving:

"It's a political piece. It is full of ideas and that's the reason I was drawn to it. The central issue is fear and to what extent people living in fear should or should not take responsibility for their own lives, and it is also about governments not being responsible to their own people."

"Terrorism is a word that's bandied around a lot at the moment, and the more we use it, the less it means; and the more we use it, the less we have to ask ourselves why someone is doing these things. The important thing is to ask why."

"They're angry. That's why they did it, I think."

"When you don't see an actor's face, it forces you to listen to what he has to say. What was important to me was that the ideas came through."

"I was really shocked when all these DVDs came with interviews. It was a great preparation."

"I was really shocked when all these DVDs came with interviews, ... It was a great preparation."

"He made the right move. You have to make sure you've got the project you really want to do. If you make three great films in your life, that's fantastic. Better than making six crap ones."

"They were familiar with me and my capabilities, what I can and can't do. I understand them and they understand me. I read the script twice I think. The real challenge is acting beneath that mask."

"I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic."

"I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in."

"I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing."

"It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen."

"I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't."

"I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality."

"I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality."

"If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it."

"I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films."

"I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia."

"I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either."

"As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional."