You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer.

It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on.

Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar Jar or any major digital character, that costs twice as much as having Tom Cruise in a movie.

I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.

You need somebody to have the idea, you need somebody who can deal with the studio and the normal things, but it's too different of a credit. That credit is usually given to the executive producer. It's not the producer.

Producers don't really publicize movies.

It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.