I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks. Viggo Mortensen More Quotes by Viggo Mortensen More Quotes From Viggo Mortensen I've been naked physically in movies - but it's a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that's not just a distraction or a character. Viggo Mortensen naked character way To strive for something better - at least there's a chance. Viggo Mortensen something-better strive chance I think it's my job to like any character I play - to understand and appreciate a character, to look at the world as much as possible from their point of view. I don't look at it just technically: learn the lines, figure out what gestures I want to bring and play, and that's it. I like to learn as much as I can about the person, and see what happens. Viggo Mortensen jobs character thinking Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you." Viggo Mortensen shy eye kids Bernie Sanders has inspired millions of people in this country. Viggo Mortensen inspired country people I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person. Viggo Mortensen metabolism slow-down thinking Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like how kids do, to point out that you're different. That would come as a surprise to me. As you get old, you either get defensive about it or you accept it and you reach out, because you realize the world's full of people like that. Viggo Mortensen yankees kids people In 2016 we are faced with a particularly bizarre and unappetizing choice as regards the two main political parties' presidential candidates, in my opinion. Viggo Mortensen presidential party two When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely. Viggo Mortensen mom brother new-york I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world. Viggo Mortensen world Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in. Viggo Mortensen environment language world Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own. Viggo Mortensen perspective different brother I met Cindy [Sheehan] near Crawford, Texas. I went out to personally thank her for waiting patiently by the road in front of George and Laura Bush's ranch for an answer from her President as to why and for what her son and others had been sacrificed in the unlawful invasion and occupation of Iraq. Viggo Mortensen iraq texas son The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I ask myself, "What's happened the moment the kid was born, until page one of the script?" To answer that simple question, I have an infinite amount of work to do. And I enjoy that part as much as I enjoy any part of making movies. Viggo Mortensen taken jobs kids In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers. Viggo Mortensen iraq careers two I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin Laden, and the vastly outnumbered defenders of Helm's Deep united against the Orcs to the "Coalition of the Willing" fighting the good fight against Muslim hordes, displayed the simplistic, xenophobic, and arrogant worldview that makes the government of the United States feared and mistrusted around the world. The editors claimed they had no space to print my brief letter, which I felt was dishonest and cowardly. Viggo Mortensen editors fighting space I think we're on the wrong path in this country and have been for a while. People are in their camps divided by region, economic situation, race, religion, ideology. And there's a lot of just staying in your camp using technology to bolster your case without actually debating with other people, without discussing. Viggo Mortensen technology country thinking One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo culture by Alix Lambert called The Mark of Cain. We've done books from Twilight of Empire, that actually has forewords by Howard Zinn and Dennis Kucinich and others, to books of poetry, photography, painting - all kinds of books. Viggo Mortensen tattoo photography book I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U.S. politician. Viggo Mortensen honest brave thinking People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore. Viggo Mortensen becoming different people
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