Defeat is always momentary.

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

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

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.

No matter how many great performances or exciting visuals we put together for the movie, we found that it was all somewhat two dimensional until we added the emotional heart of Howard Shore's music. Then, and only then, did the film come to life.

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people loved, and suddenly CDs were threatening.