I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there.

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.

I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.

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

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

You shouldn't think of these movies as being 'The Lord of the Rings.' The Lord of the Rings is, and always will be, a wonderful book - one of the greatest ever written. Any films will only ever be an INTERPRETATION of the book. In this case my interpretation.

Defeat is always momentary.