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.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

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

Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.

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.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

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