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.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.

Defeat is always momentary.

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.

New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.