One of the great things is, you're never a producer unless you're making a movie.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

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

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.

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.

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

It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless.