As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there.

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

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

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.

In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.

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