The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

Opinions are like orgasms...mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.

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.

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

With the right movie, 3D can enhance the experience. Absolutely, it can make a good film a great film. It can make a great film a really amazing film to see .

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.