One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor.

When You're Directing, You're Right At The Coal Face, Always Exhausted, Often Emotional - And I'll Enjoy Being A Couple Of Steps Back From That And Simply Helping Where I Can.

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 Come Into The Film And Do Things You Never Even Imagined. Production Designers Come In, The Director Of Photography Lights It In A Way That You Never Imagined. So, It's Always Evolving, Always Exciting.

Writing A Screen Play With A Group Of Collaborators Is Like The Lennon Mccartney Collaboration .... Sometimes One Or Two People Do More Than Others On Certain Parts Of The Process And Vice Versa.

No Matter How Many Great Performances Or Exciting Visuals We Put Together For The Movie, We Found That It Was All Somewhat Two Dimensional Until We Added The Emotional Heart Of Howard Shore's Music. Then, And Only Then, Did The Film Come To Life.

Film Is Such A Powerful Medium. It's Like A Weapon And I Think You Have A Duty To Self-censor.