I Think We Can Be Very Narrow-minded

I Expect At Some Point I'll Probably Want To Go Back On Stage And Do Some Theater, Because I've Not Done Theater In 10 Years.

It's A Different Rhythm Than Most Movies. For A Lot Of The Actors, You're 12,000 Miles Away From Home. It Becomes A Way Of Life - Getting Up At Five In The Morning, Shooting Every Day, Day In Day Out, For 270 Days. The New Cast Playing The Dwarves Were Carrying Incredibly Heavy Weights In Their Suits, They Sat Through Hours Of Make-up Every Day. So It's Quite Challenging From A Stamina Point Of View.

I Can Get On With All Different Sorts Of People, And I Never Feel Homesick, Particularly, Or I've Never Felt Kind Of Patriotic Towards Any One Country.

Caesar [from The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes] Was Brought Up With Human Beings And Because Of The Drug He Had Pretty Much Grown Up With His Whole Life, He Felt Like An Outsider, He Felt Trapped In An Ape's Body But He Didn't Really Feel Like An Ape And That Was My Way Into The Character. So He's Always Had This Duality Playing Him From An Infant All The Way To Now As A Fifty-five Year Old Ape.

I'd Already Started Directing Short Films When We Were Doing 'lord Of The Rings,' Then Videogame Projects. So Peter's Known That I've Been Heading Towards Directing For A Long Time. But I Always Thought My First Outing Would Be A Couple Of People And A Digital Camera In The Back Streets Of London Somewhere!