I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.

There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

The one thing with 3D presentations is I think that 3D itself, whether it's 24 or 48, is at a very interesting point in time.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.