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 ….

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies..

If you work at love, you will find love at work..

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being..

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion..

With the right movie, 3D can enhance the experience. Absolutely, it can make a good film a great film. It can make a great film a really amazing film….

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured sto….

To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big pro….

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor..

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance..

Rivalry doesn't help anybody..

In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended ed….

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

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 ….

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old..

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. Actors com….

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, th….

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done….

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool..

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image..

And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I d….