What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret them in so many ways. Each age will have its own resonance with Lord of the Rings.

No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. So Peter's known that I've been heading towards directing for a long time. But I always thought my first outing would be a couple of people and a digital camera in the back streets of London somewhere!

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.