For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

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.

When I start a film, I can sort of shut my eyes, sit somewhere quiet and imagine the movie finished. I can imagine the camera angles, I can even imagine the type of music. Without knowing the tune, I can imagine the type of music it needs to be.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.