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

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.

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.

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.

Defeat is always momentary.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not.