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

It's interesting how the frame rate actually changes the perception of the 3D as well as making it more comfortable to watch.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

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

I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning. Actors come into the film and do things you never even imagined. Production designers come in, the director of photography lights it in a way that you never imagined. So, it's always evolving, always exciting.