I'd Like To Think That We Strive

We're Live In A World That Has, In Many Ways, Become Desensitized And Unable To Empathize With Other Cultures And Species. The Dangerous Part Is That We Objectify Others And Have Somehow Removed Ourselves, Mentally, From The Very Planet We Inhabit.

I Wanted To Be A Painter, Really, When I Was Growing Up As A Kid. It Was One Thing That Really Took A Grip On Me.

My First Job When I Got My Equity Card Was Acting In 14 Plays Back-to-back. Playing That Many Roles, You Look For Ways Of Differentiating The Characters Physically, Which Goes Hand In Hand With Understanding Them Psychologically.

I'd Already Started Directing Short Films When We Were Doing 'lord Of The Rings,' Then Videogame Projects. So Peter's Known That I've Been Heading Towards Directing For A Long Time. But I Always Thought My First Outing Would Be A Couple Of People And A Digital Camera In The Back Streets Of London Somewhere!

I'm Working From Home A Lot. That's Very Unusual Because I'm Away A Lot, Sometimes Working On The Other Side Of The World For Long Periods Of Time. So, It's Hard To Manage In The Sense That I Want To Be The Best Dad I Can Be But It's Almost Harder When You Have Your Kids Outside The Door.