I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.