The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I don't believe in the concept that 3D should be shot separately. I mean, every director has their own style, sure, but I don't think any of that is really an issue with 3D.

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.

I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.

Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both motion-capture and traditional animation to build a system.