When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.