To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because I think you have to have a sense of believing the world that you're going into.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

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.

I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.