To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

I just got to the point where I literally didn't want anyone else to do it.

Defeat is always momentary.

There's something incredibly tragic about Kong. You feel almost feel ashamed to be a human being when you see what happens to him. I mean he is ultimately a pure-heart.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

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

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.