Occupation: Film Director Birth: October 31, 1961
People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to An….
I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist..
It's interesting how the frame rate actually changes the perception of the 3D as well as making it more comfortable to watch..
I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people….
To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire..
The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in..
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..
Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it..
The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk..
One does not simply walk into Mordor..
Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant..
The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor..
New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target ….
Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with..
Aragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop 'til nightfall. Pippin: But what about breakfast? Aragorn: You've already had it. Pippin: We've had one, yes. But ….
Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others o….
To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because I think you ….
One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward..
There's something incredibly tragic about Kong. You feel almost feel ashamed to be a human being when you see what happens to him. I mean he is ultim….
I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning..
A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for i….