I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.

The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than just finishing off the story, it's like a whole new adventure all of its own. I'm very excited about it.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.

I am only 30, and music is like a subject for me. I work like a student in every film.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.