The one thing with 3D presentations is I think that 3D itself, whether it's 24 or 48, is at a very interesting point in time.

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

[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.

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.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

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