The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

Awake, chaos:we have napped.

No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.

I looked evil in the eye and smiled at it with such power that I felt a little dizzy.Jade Gentry (Polishing Jade)

Questions married other questions and had theories for children.

I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife.

I hate that when people are like, "Well, all dwarves know each other, right?" And you want to get mad, but you can't because we do.

Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.