I recreate myself; that is my only power..

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters..

I am doing what I love to do..

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it..

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has..

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….

I see and approve better things, but follow worse..

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever..

The Underneath was my first film. Steven Soderbergh. I remember that I thought, "Wow, this is such a highlight. Am I ever going to get back to this?"….

We don't have anything planned, so nothing can go wrong..

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them..

We considered behaving, but it's against our nature..

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects..

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it.

I am so not technically proficient at all..

I never studied film theory, so I don't know the terminology..

Would I do it again? Film another movie? Oh yeah..

The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete..

I just find something to learn in everything..

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young wo….