As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

I always wear something slightly masculine.

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.