The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

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

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

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

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.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

God helps those who strut their stuff.

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On termsLike these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

The world is our own reflection. As long as there is deceit in you, others will deceive you.

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

It's all just practice for the next time

I always enjoy the battle sequences. It's like going to the playground.

Start three bars before something.

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.