Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

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.

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.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.