The Vast Majority Of The Cgi Budget

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.

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.

To Me, Fantasy Should Be As Real As Possible. I Don't Buy Into The Notion That Because It's Fantastic, It Should Be Unrealistic, Because I Think You Have To Have A Sense Of Believing The World That You're Going Into.

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.

Writing A Screen Play With A Group Of Collaborators Is Like The Lennon Mccartney Collaboration .... Sometimes One Or Two People Do More Than Others On Certain Parts Of The Process And Vice Versa.