Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. /ˈviːɡoʊ ˈmɔːrtənsən/is an American actor. He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of subsequent years, including The Indian Runner, Carlito's Way, Crimson Tide, Daylight, The Portrait of a Lady, G.I. Jane, A Perfect Murder, A Walk on the Moon, and 28 Days...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 October 1958
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
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.
Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
When people say that entertainers should "know your place," they might as well say the same thing about plumbers and teachers and cab drivers. We all should be able to express our views.
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh, it's some kind of liberal utopian fantasy. The enemy is gonna be all these conservative types that they'll probably run into, and that's going to be the story."
In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.