As A Filmmaker, You Are

Most Directors Prefer To Direct Everything Themselves. I Thought I Could On Lord Of The Rings, But Very Quickly Found Out That The Sheer Scale Prevented It.

I'm A Beatles Fan, And I Remember In The Mid-1980s, When Cds First Came Out, There Was A Sound Of Vinyl And The Sound Of The Needle On It That People Loved, And Suddenly Cds Were Threatening.

I Adore Physical Miniatures And Try To Use Them As Much As I Can And Have A Bit Of A Fetish About That.

I Find That In The Process Of Making A Film You're Constantly Discovering Things That You Never Even Imagined Would Work At The Beginning. Actors Come Into The Film And Do Things You Never Even Imagined. Production Designers Come In, The Director Of Photography Lights It In A Way That You Never Imagined. So, It's Always Evolving, Always Exciting.

What I Don't Like Are Pompous, Pretentious Movies.