There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.

In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.