Interview for the BBC on march 02, 2001 : "Lord of the Rings I think will create cinema history. I don't think anybody will have seen anything quite like it." Talking about Peter Jackson : "His instincts and his stamina are amazing - something I can barely believe."

Interview on april 2001 : "Tolkien said that the date of the facts told in The Lord of the Rings was 7000 years ago in England. That's what he said. Saruman is a Maiar. Great wizards. When they came to Middle Earth they were five. Two, the Blue Wizards, are not mentioned. The other three are Saruman the White -The Greatest One-, Gandalf the Gray and Rathagast. We don't see Rathagast in the book and in the movie. Basically we have these two great wizards : Gandalf and Saruman. They are very powerful. They had human bodies but they're not human. They are spirits of the Maiar sent to Earth. When they came to Earth, Saruman is good. At the very beginning. He is given the land to have his castle. He also has Palanthir, which is the crystal bowl. He finds Sauron who has been recreated. He's come back after the great battle before The Lord of the Rings. Also Sauron, at the beginning, was not a bad person but he becomes Melkor's servant. And then a bad and evil person. After the battle, Sauron disappears as a human being. He becomes a spirit. The red eye. He is the Lord of the Rings. A lot of people think somebody else is. No. It is Sauron because there are many rings made but, like the poem said : "One ring to rule them all and in the darkness find them". That one ring was made by Sauron. When Sauron finds that the Hobbit Frodo keeps it, he wants it back. Saruman knows it and wants it too, to become more powerful than Sauron."