There's something incredibly tragic about Kong. You feel almost feel ashamed to be a human being when you see what happens to him. I mean he is ultimately a pure-heart.

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.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

It's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness.

What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you? Thank you. You are very kind.

Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.