Defeat Is Always Momentary.

[while Shooting Close-ups] You Study Real Eyes, You Study How The Light Reflects In Them, You Study The Back Of The Eye, You Study The Way Irises Reflect Emotion. You Go Into Great Scientific Detail.

He Who Must Search A Haystack For A Needle Is Likely To End Up With The Attitude That The Needle Is Not Worth The Search.

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.

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.

No Matter How Many Great Performances Or Exciting Visuals We Put Together For The Movie, We Found That It Was All Somewhat Two Dimensional Until We Added The Emotional Heart Of Howard Shore's Music. Then, And Only Then, Did The Film Come To Life.