The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

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.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

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

[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.

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

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