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.

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.

Defeat is always momentary.

People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing.

To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because I think you have to have a sense of believing the world that you're going into.

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.