What I love about films is that you can see "King Kong" and you can be affected by it and then you realize that he was just this little guy when he made that fall.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

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

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.

I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

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

What is the truth is that every one of my films is a film that I'd love to go see, and I think that's very important because I always think it's a mistake to make movies for other people, or to make them for a demographic, or try to second guess an audience.