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.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

I don't believe in the concept that 3D should be shot separately. I mean, every director has their own style, sure, but I don't think any of that is really an issue with 3D.

No matter how many great performances or exciting visuals we put together for the movie, we found that it was all somewhat two dimensional until we added the emotional heart of Howard Shore's music. Then, and only then, did the film come to life.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both motion-capture and traditional animation to build a system.