The Most Honest Form Of Filmmaking Is

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

And So I Look Back On Not Just The Last Ten Years But Everything That I've Done As Being Sort Of An Ongoing Growing Continual Film School. I Mean I Don't Think I've Got To A Point Where I've Achieved Anything That Feels Like, A Particular Milestone, But There's Still A Lot More To Learn And Hopefully A Lot More Films To Make.

You Shouldn't Think Of These Movies As Being 'the Lord Of The Rings.' The Lord Of The Rings Is, And Always Will Be, A Wonderful Book - One Of The Greatest Ever Written. Any Films Will Only Ever Be An Interpretation Of The Book. In This Case My Interpretation.

New Zealand Is Not Used To Wealth. In America Wealth Is Kind Of A Thing Of Pride. Here It's The Opposite. The More You've Got, The Bigger The Target You Are.

Motion-capture Is Not A Genre. Motion-capture Is A Tool And Technique And What We Tried To Do Was To Really Use Both Motion-capture And Traditional Animation To Build A System.