The Director Has To Win,

Two Of The Actors, Sean Bean And Orlando Bloom, Have Been Caught Between Two Landslides And Are Now Trapped In A Tiny Town In The Middle Of The South Island. They Have Been Taken In By A Kindly Woman Who Has Offered Them Food And A Bed. They Were Last Reported To Be Cooking Spaghetti And Cracking Into A Bottle Of Red Wine.

New Zealand Is Not A Small Country But A Large Village.

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.

One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor.

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.