Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional level to Frodo's scenes and although he is a very instinctive actor, we discussed the character thoroughly.

To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

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