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I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and that you're part of it. You don't want to be aware of how it's being done; you just want it to feel really seamless.

I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.

For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.

I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.

You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.

How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script?