One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor.

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.

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.

So Many Film Makers Are Scared Of Visual Effects - Which Is No Crime.

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 Literally Knows Exactly How To Use Their Eyes, And Even As A Filmmaker I Love Shooting Huge Close-ups Because It's Those Eyes That Mean So Much To Me.