Viggo Mortensen Stories Quotations

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."