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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.