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

Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

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

Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.

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.

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