I Just Got To The Point Where

When I Start A Film, I Can Sort Of Shut My Eyes, Sit Somewhere Quiet And Imagine The Movie Finished. I Can Imagine The Camera Angles, I Can Even Imagine The Type Of Music. Without Knowing The Tune, I Can Imagine The Type Of Music It Needs To Be.

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, They Are Made For The Audience.

One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor.

Motion-capture Is Not A Genre. Motion-capture Is A Tool And Technique And What We Tried To Do Was To Really Use Both Motion-capture And Traditional Animation To Build A System.

Most Directors Prefer To Direct Everything Themselves. I Thought I Could On Lord Of The Rings, But Very Quickly Found Out That The Sheer Scale Prevented It.