I don`t quite know what an auteur is. I`ve never quite understood that term, because filmmaking is such a huge team effort, you - I mean, I regard myself as being sort of the final filter, so everything that ends up in the movie is there, because it`s som...
No film has captivated my imagination more than King Kong. I`m making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. It has been my sustained dream to reinterpret this classic story for a new age.
On making "The Lord of the Rings": "Looking back, I think we were a bit naive. At the beginning I don`t think anybody had any idea how difficult or complicated it would be. We somehow went into it thinking we could do it. And then we`ve stumbled along jus...