For Me, What Makes Great

Life In La Is Not Lying In The Sun For Months. It Is Having A 4pm Meeting And Leaving At Noon To Sit In Traffic For Four Hours. Its Not Glam.

People Are Scared To Make Something That Doesn't Look Like Another Film That Made A Lot Of Money. It Means We Get 'four Weddings And A Funeral' Made Again And Again.

A Lot Of Ideas Took Us To Dead Ends Or We Found The Tone Wasn’t Just Right. I Think We Discovered Very Quickly This Wasn’t Just A Song To End The Battle Of The Five Armies — It Was A Song To Say Goodbye To Middle-earth.

In Fact, Russell Crowe Once Phoned Me Up To See If I Wanted To Go To A Party But I Had To Bring My Guitar And Perform Oh Jean.

I Wasn't Into Tolkien At School Really. But The Story Is Timeless, The Themes That It Touches On Are Contained In Cultures All Around The World. The Innocent On A Quest, The Pretender, An Inanimate Object That Holds Evil - It's Really Strange That These Themes Are There In So Many Different Countries' Folklore.