To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

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

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

What is the truth is that every one of my films is a film that I'd love to go see, and I think that's very important because I always think it's a mistake to make movies for other people, or to make them for a demographic, or try to second guess an audience.

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

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.