[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises ref….

Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional level to Frodo's scenes ….

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work..

I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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 ….

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….

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of ….

I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films….

Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South….

When you're casting a movie and when you're shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really. Any great actor litera….

I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope..