Quote: Identity

[wowie]

“Identity is another important aspect of A History of Violence. I play someone who’s escaped from somewhere to become someone else and create a new identity. It is one of the basic acts of human existence that we create an identity. It’s not a genetic thing that’s given to us as an absolute like the colour of our eyes; it’s something we are involved in creating as we live our lives by the choices we make…..If you accept that as a reality then you have to accept the possibility that you can create a new identity, not just with credit cards, but become a different person. I am happy with who I am but my character in A History of Violence wasn’t.”

Viggo Mortensen
Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back, by Marianne Gray
Take1, 8 October 2005