It's all about his determination. You never, ever, give up once you start something, once you're on the trail of something you don't stop and that's what you have to go through when you're making a movie too. Once the train's rolling, you have to stick with it.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.

Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.