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

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.

Yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

The U.S. didn't save enough; we borrowed a lot. There were structural imbalances in Asia with exporters, with oil exporters for a whole variety of things.

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.