Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end.

We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made.

I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work.

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things.

You never make movies for Oscars.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.

I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film.

The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material.

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.