[thumping from trunk] ron there we go. Hey [thumping] help. Tonight on rock center, apples new leader tim cook gives his First Television interview since the death of steve jobs. Tonight, he talks about the final gift from the founder. He responds to apples critics, why cant you be a made in America Company . And hints about what may be the next big thing. Were living the jetsons with this. When you turn on the Tv Television is still television. Also tonight, the conversation every family should have, the decision faced by every family. So why do so many get it wrong and regret it . Harry smith gives us a very intimate look inside one place where theyre trying to change that. Give me as much time as i can get. But keep me comfortable. Also tonight, ann curry travels to new zealand to visit film director Peter Jackson. Can his hotly anticipated new movie the hobbit possibly live up to the lord of the rings . One of my favorite characters. Ann goes inside his magical world. Now were really in trouble. Yeah, where are we looking . Oh, dear. That and more tonight as rock center gets under way. Good evening and welcome to rock center. The impact of apple on life in america is well established by any standard. They have changed our electronics and our culture and whether youre the owner of apple products or not, youve got to admit that much. As much as any company can be about one guy, apple was steve jobs. And now that steve jobs is gone, apple is run by tim cook. He hasnt talked a whole lot about his life or his business. He certainly hasnt done so on television until now. Apple is famously secretively and while it took months of meetings and negotiations, tim cook agreed to be interviewed and we met up at one of the places apple has transformed. Nobody remembers the guy who came after thomas edison. And nobody seems to recognize tim cook as we walked together across the teeming floor of Grand Central station. I like being anonymous. As we walk, were surrounded by examples of what apple has done to our society, both good and bad. People now live their lives while listening to the communicating with members of and who else would have us believe they intend to be the one company that reverses hundreds of years of Business History by becoming the one company that never fades away into irrelevance . You realize if youre a company that can keep amazing us consumer, if youre a company that can stay fresh without an expiration date, youll be the First Company ever to do that. There is a cycle, that circle of life, life and death, and youre trying to buck that trend. Dont bet against it. We started our day with tim cook in Lower Manhattan at another of his 250 apple stores where we began the questioning with whats different about it. How are you not steve jobs . In many ways. One of the things he did for me that removed a gigantic burden that would have normally existed is he told me on a couple of occasions before he passed away to never question what he would have done, never ask the question, what steve would do, to just do whats right. Doing right has done well for tim cook so far. Hes had a good first year on the job. The companys stock is up about 45 during his tenure. And think about this, hes already presided over the rollout of three ipads, two iphones and three macs. It is beautiful. Stunning. Youve got guys whose job it is to get this mesh right, to get this curve right. To get it precisely right. In fairness, however, this past year, they havent gotten everything precisely right. Weather. Nice weather starting with siri, the small woman who lives in your iphone. The service amazed all of us at first, but then came under criticism for not being perfect or as consistently amazing as steve jobs wanted it to be. Then there are the maps. Iphones used to come with google maps until they set out on their own. But apples version wasnt quite ready for launch. It lacked some critical street smarts. And in those early days, god help you if you went anywhere near the Brooklyn Bridge or the hoover dam. It was a rare and public embarrassment and cook fired two top executives in charge. How big of a setback was maps . It didnt meet our customers expectations and our expectations of ourselves are even higher than our customers. However, i can tell you, we and you said goodbye to some executives . Well, we screwed up. And we are putting the weight of the Company Behind correcting it. As for the iphone 5 itself, they have flown off those perfect apple store shelves. But buyers of the iphone 5 soon discovered they had to buy something else, none of the old power cords work on the new equipment. Why did we have to buy new cords for this . As it turns out, we had a connector that we used for a decade or more. I have 500 of them at home if you need any. But its one of those things where we couldnt make this product with that connector. But let me tell you, the product is so worth it. And thats the thing about apple, sleek isnt cheap. Those white earbuds announce to the world you have a couple of hundred dollars to spend. It will buy you a product that works like no other. And the apple products youll see are the ones people bring in from home. Theyre usually right there on the desk next to the computers we have to use for work. Apple prides itself on being equal parts Computer Company and religion. Apple fans get whipped up into a stampeding froth with every new product release. Customers famously camp outdoors and then emerge triumphant, emotionally spent. Journalists flock to those dramatic product rollouts as if the ceo is going to reveal stone tablets, instead of the kind with scratchproof glass. And e culture of secrecy is designed to keep it that way. Why are you institutionally so secretive . How is it that you know how many times ive listened to a bob dylan song or any other song and yet we never get to know anything about you guys . We think holding our product plan secret is very important because people love surprises. This was one surprise apple could not have loved, the new samsung ad campaign. Its blistering, bold, damaging. It portrays apple products and people who love them as somehow passe and uncool, even desperate. Its a blunt instrument disguised as satire and its a frontal attack on a giant that would have been unthinkable not too long ago. What did you just do . Just sent my playlist. The galaxy s3. When do you think well be able to do that thing . Hey. Hey, mom, dad. Thanks for holding our spot. You guys have fun. Home by midnight, you two. The next big thing is already here. This ises the line for apps. The unmistakable message right there, apple products are for your parents. Samsung makes the really cool stuff and theyre much more casual about it. They came along and tried to paint those with white earbuds, apple users as losers. Theyre trying to paint their product as cool and yours as not cool. Is this thermonuclear war . We love our customers. And well fight to defend them with anyone. Is it thermonuclear war . The reality is that we love competition at apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff. Hes talking about the legal fight between apple and samsung. Theyve sued each other in courts around the world over patent infringements. Apple won the last round in the u. S. When a jury ruled samsung owed them 1 billion for stealing ideas. Samsung was back in court just today appealing the judgment. Sometimes the business of making Pretty Things is ugly. How tough is your business . How surprised would we civilians be at how rough it gets . Its tough. Its very tough. You have people trying to hack into systems on a constant basis. You have people trying to enlist confidential information about future product plans. All of these things are things that we constantly fight. And then theres tim cooks larger challenge, the man who r rhapsodyizes about it. You have a grindingly simple and normal american life. When you and i as kids would go to a neighbors house and see under their new tv sony trinitron, that would tell us something instantly. And youre smiling. And that brand lasted up until walkman, diskman. But then, fastforward to today, its less meaningful. How do you not become sony with all apologies to sony . Were very simple people at apple. We focus on making the worlds best products and enriching peoples lives. I think some companies, maybe even the one that you mentioned, maybe they decided that they could do everything. We have to make sure at apple that we stay true, to focus, to laser focus, we can only do great things a few times. Only on a few products. But will the next great thing be apples longrumored move into the Television Business . Its a market that we have intense interest in and its a market that we see that has been left behind. What does he mean by that . Tim cook goes on to talk about that. Well show you as much as hes willing to say about what might be the next big thing when we come back with part two of our interview right after this break. Two beams it will make something explode and thats more fun . Yeah and its more powerful youre saying . Yeah [ male announcer ] its not complicated. Doing two things at once is better. And only at ts network lets you talk and surf on your iphone 5. Nespresso. Where i never have to compromise on anything. Where just one touch creates the perfect coffee. Where every cappuccino and latte is only made with fresh milk. And where the staff is exceptionally friendly. Nespresso. What else . Gingerbread cookie coffees no wonder people get jolly around the holidays. 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Then less than two months later, he was gone, after a long fight with pancreatic cancer. Its so great to see so many of you here today. It was tim cook who was chosen to preside over the private Memorial Service for apple employees. Thousands of people gathered as the face of the founder gazed down upon them from the side of the building. It was the saddest time of my life. Did you know how sick he was . I always thought that he would bounce back because he always did. And it wasnt until extremely close to the end that i reached sort of an intellectual point that he couldnt bounce this time. Big boss coming through, people, look alive. Its his company to run now. And after the peaceful transition of power, he was quickly forced into crisis footing because of the situation in china, where so many apple products are assembled by skilled workers. Theres been trouble and cook traveled there after Harsh Criticism of poor working conditions and low wages. The situation was later parodied on snl by cast members who actually make up the heart of apples demographic. Oh, no, talk about apple now. Its no work, right . You want starbucks to take you to duncan dkin donuts . China remains a major issue for apple and tim cook seems to have a ready answer for it. Why cant you be a made in America Company . This iphone, as a matter of fact, the engine in here is made in america. And not only are the engines in here made in america, but engines are made in america and are exported. The glass on this phone is made in kentucky. So weve been working for years on doing more and more in the united states. Next year, we will do one of our mac lines in the united states. Lets say our constitution was a little different and barack obama called you in tomorrow and said, get everybody out of china and do whatever you have to do, make these, make everything you make in the united states. What would that do to the price of this device . Honestly, its not so much about price. Its about the skills, et cetera. Over time, there are skills that are associated with manufacturing that have left the view out. Cook says apple has already created more than 600,000 jobs here in the u. S. , that includes everything from research and development to retail to a solar power farm. He also points to the app industry, another one of those that didnt exist before apple came along. All those icons and all those downloads employ a lot of people. All this side is ipods here. It was such a different world just six years ago when we sat down with steve jobs for one of his last television interviews. He showed us around apples Flagship Store on fifth avenue in new york which six years later is still the big glass granddaddy of them all. Back then, steve jobs was as usual all about the future. Weve got some really great ideas of the products were going to build next year and the year after that were working really hard on. I think our focal length is always forward. He was all black turtleneck and glass frames and mystical and mysterious. Forgive me, you and i could work at a best buy, were plainlooking people. Youre a much more conventional, seeming, guy. But theres obviously brainpower he saw in you that you brought to bear on this job. Im not sure a conventional person would have come to apple at that point in time. Almost everyone i know thought i was crazy. Thats because apple was on the ropes back in 1998. Steve jobs had just come back and was trying to steal cook away from compaq computer, a name that was actually vibrant back then. Id just gotten to compaq, just gotten to houston. I agreed to come out and talk. Five minutes into the talk with him, im wanting to throw caution to the wind and come to apple. And the rest is history. Tim cooks personal history starts to robertsdale, alabama, the son of a Gulf Coast Shipyard worker. He went off to auburn and then to duke for an mba. Among what little else we know about him, hes got a lot of bob dylan on his ipod and Bobby Kennedy was his hero. He still has his accent from the south. These days, he finds solitude in the west. For all the folks trying to get to know you and figure you out, where do you go when you need to go someplace . I work out. Im in the gym about 5 00 a. M. Every morning. If some free time, i go to a national park. I love getting in nature. And so these are the things that calm my mind and allow me to think clearly. Thats what i do. This is kind of your television comingout. And im glad you did this. Does this mean you have reached a cruising altitude . Theres no maybe for other ceos. Theres no cruising altitude at apple. Tim cook is a manager with a vision who is following in the footsteps of a visionaryturnedmanager. While he has to worry about global issues like the counterfeiters who instantly turn out fake copies of every new apple product, cook has to keep one eye on the stock price constantly and the other on the future. And that sure sounds like it means tv. What can apple do for televisionwatching . What do you know that is going to change the game that we dont know yet . Its a market that we see that has been left behind. I used to watch the jetsons as a kid. Absolutely. I loved the jetsons. Were living the jetsons with this. George, youll never guess what happened. Facetime is the jetsons but television is still television. Its an area of interest. I cant say more than that. Im not shocked. Ten years from now, americans are going to be amazed that they ever give us broad generalities. Whats the new thing . Its okay to tell me. Let this stuff out. Whatever youre thinking of for the future. Its all right. Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didnt know you wanted and then once you get it, you cant imagine your life without it. Starting with . And you can count on apple doing that. Oh, frustrating. So television is an area of intense interest, thats almost a declaration in apple speak, clearly this is an ongoing conversation. In fact, were going to keep talking about it tonight. 11 30 eastern, were going to talk about it in a live stream. Ill be joined by the editor of the verge. Well answer your questions. Its all on our website tonight. Hope you can join us for that. Well take a break now. Up next, its a situation every family needs to face. When we come back, some remarkable lessons about one of lifes most important conversations. Shes not famous. Shes never been on a red carpet. But shes the star of my life. [ female announcer ] kay jewelers presents a new collection from hollywoods premier jewelry designer neil lane designs. 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Reporter tough choices about which treatments and how much treatment become a guessing game, often powered by guilt. One Family Member may say, no, we need to do this, we have to do everything. And another Family Member that is saying, we just have to make her comfortable. Reporter but that disagreement rarely happens in what might just be the best place to die in america, lacrosse, wisconsin. Here in this hospital, an astounding 96 of the patients have a game plan for life and death. Its called an advanced directive. It starts with a very tough, very honest meeting they call next steps. Tell me what you know about pauls condition. Hes not going to get better. And we know that. Paul, what do you hope for with your current plan of care . Give me as much time as i can get, but keep me comfortable. Reporter paul and gene pearson have been married 21 years, a second marriage for both. Together they have six children. Hes a 73yearold retired architect. She was an interior designer. This is what real love and devotion looks like. If you were having a good day, what would that day be like . Id probably be fishing. Youd be fishing. And shed be with me. Shes more important to me than anything. Reporter paul pearson has inoperable lung cancer. He and jean dont want there to be any doubt about how he wants to live out the rest of his life. This discussion reporter in this meeting, run by jack si, a nurse practitioner, paul and jean face their decisions headon. We were there to witness the process, which is as emotional as it is profound. Paul, what worries you about your illness . What fears do you have . Breathing is going to be a probl problem. And probably having to go into a nursing home. What about going to a nursing home . Being stuck there. I dont want to be a burden to her. Reporter paul is emphatic. He doesnt want to linger or suffer. And he is not afraid to say so by refusing treatment. What im going to do now is read through these situations. If i have a serious complication from my cancer or treatment for my cancer so that i was facing a prolonged hospital stay and my chance of living through the complication was low, for example, only 5 out of 100 patients would live i would deny treatment. It was expected that i would never either walk or talk or both and i would require 24hour nursing care it would be the same answer. It was expected that i would never know who i was or who i was with same thing. And im in agreement with that. Reporter looking ahead to the end of life is a journey that takes no small amount of courage. And what happens in this meeting is as important for jean as it is for paul. This is really a gift that youre giving to your family because at some point, if theyre needing to make a decision, they can go back to this and say, yes, this is hard, this is difficult, but this is what mom or this is what dad really wanted. Take a deep breath for me. Reporter one of the things theyve learned here is all this talking about how you want to die, in many cases, helps people live longer and incredibly enough costs less. At gunderson, patients in the last six months of life spent half as days in the hospital as the national average. But this doctor led the gunderson team that came up with this better way to die. When we are dealing with patients who have getting sicker, they reach a point where they know there isnt much more, they say, id like for you to keep me comfortable. The cost f of care goes down because were not doing all these expensive things they dont want. Some people will say, it looks like theyre trying to talk people out of care. Thats not the philosophy. We really want to understand the patients perspective. We want to understand the patients values. Reporter and planning ahead has another benefit peace. When its time to go, there is little rancor or remorse. Hello, eva. Reporter while we were at gunderson, we met the foote family, just the week before, 90yearold eva foote was at a fair. I know what you wanted for her was for her to be comfortable. Reporter but severe stomach pain brought her to the emergency room. Eva had a lifethreatening blodt clot in her intestines. They had a roadmap which led them to forego surgery because doctors found evas chances of regaining anything close to her former health were next to none. Your parents led you know ahead of time what they wanted to do. Yes. Knowing ahead of time it takes a load off the family. Reporter two days later, eva passed away peacefully. Her wishes honored. For paul pearsons children, the plan was tough to take at first. But now that they know what he wants, they have accepted it. It does put everybody at ease. To know that there is this plan in place. Yeah, it really does. All of us can be prepared for each step as it comes. Reporter the pearsons dont feel like victims of their circumstances. In fact, just the opposite. The process has helped paul decide how he wants to live the rest of his life. On the schedule, more fishing and historical reenactments. Jean and paul have been going for years, and now is not the time to stop. How helpful is it to have these conversations, to go through the scenarios ahead of time . This gives us that advantage that we dont have to be secondguessing, what should i do . Weve already made those decisions. And theyre hard decisions. But were okay with them. Our thanks to harry smith but also to paul and jean pearson who we happen to know are watching our broadcast at home tonight. They allowed us to join in their lifechanging conversation. Thank you on our behalf for sharing your bravery. Were back with more right after this. And there are many years ahead. Join the millions of members whove chosen an aarp Medicare SupplementInsurance Plan insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Go long. 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Welcome back. One of the years most hotly anticipated movies, the hobbit, is about to open in america. The story itself laid the groundwork for the hugely successful lord of the rings trilogy, which director Peter Jackson turned into a hugely successful film franchise. But as ann curry found when she visited Peter Jackson in new zealand, this billiondollar enterprise really started when a monster movie drove a little boy to tears. Hitchcocks great quote about some peoples movies are slices of life. Mine are slices of cake. That sums me up. Im someone that can happily buy a ticket and go to a film and come away thinking, wow, that was cool. Those are the sorts of films that i hope im making. Reporter big slice of cake, chocolaty, with lots of frosting. And quite a few calories. Reporter you may not recognize his face but you know his movies. Sir Peter Jackson, yes, hes a sir, is the Creative Genius behind king kong and the lord of the rings. Now a decade after he directed the trilogy comes the hobbit, filmed here in his native country new zealand. Why did you fight so hard to keep the filming of this movie the hobbit in new zealand . My boys wanted to make my films here. I just regard myself as a new zealand filmmaker. I dont feel compelled to go somewhere else to do what i want to do. Reporter we caught up with jackson just before the hobbits world premiere. Its the greatest privilege in the world to have your hobby be your profession. Its a gift. I have to keep reminding myself of that when its tough and tiring. Reporter we got him to sit down and take a rare break. Last night, i had a look at the movie for the first time as a complete finished run of a film. Reporter what did you think . It was okay. A few little tweaks to do today, though. Reporter still . And the premiere, as we speak, is tomorrow. Yeah, well, its tomorrow. Its not today. Reporter why do you have this reputation for always changing things at the last minute . Because you can always make it better. I could happily work on the hobbit for another six months. Its never perfect. And so we just simply take every available minute, second, up until the time that the film has to be taken away from us. Reporter in complicating his perfectionist tendencies, jackson is having to follow the biggest success of his career. The lord of the rings earned him three academy awards. Did you feel a pressure to outdo yourself . Its the thing that made me hesitant to do the hobbit is that i didnt want to find myself competing with a film id made earlier. What i ended up doing, i think, was embracing the fact that the hoit is a very different tone of story. It was written for children. It has a whimsy and a charm and a humor that doesnt exist really in lord of the rings. Reporter it was his own childhood in a small Seaside Community that shaped his future. Born in 1961 to english immigrants, joan and bill jackson, a housewife and a civil servant. He was an only child. At age 9, he woke up to the power of film when he found himself crying watching this scene in the original king kong. What was it about that movie . It was an almost empathy for this innocent character taken from his home and dragged into the 20th century civilization. The film affected me to the point that it was the time that i decided that i want to do that. Reporter without any formal training, jackson began making his own movies, using a super 8 camera that a neighbor gave his family. How did you figure out how to make a film . You learn from watching other films. And then there was a magazine caught famous monsters of filmland. That magazine inspired more nerdy young kids to become a filmmaker than anything else. That magazine was responsible for warping a lot of young minds. Reporter so reading that magazine, you came up with all kinds of ideas. And it sounds like your family had to suffer a great deal for your art. Well, my mother had to give up her oven so i could cook foam latex monsters. Our little house would have horrific smell of rubbery sulfur, vulcanized rubber in it for days after i did a piece in the oven. Reporter his parents let him drop out of high school to take a job to pay for film equipment. Before long, he was making flasher films starting with bad taste where he and his friends made up the cast and crew. Come on in for a cup of tea. Reporter followed by a dark comedy with puppets called meet the feebles. And a horror movie brain dead. Throughout it all, his parents support never wavered. There was these incredibly gruesome movies i made, those were the movies my parents came to watch and somehow still managed to be very proud. You feel a passion to do this which in my in this case was rather odd, make mobsters and make little movies and cut them together and screen them on a sheet on my bedroom wall. If you have parents that dont question it, that dont regard it as being odd or strange, dont make you feel like a weirdo, i think thats really important. Reporter his breakout film was heavenly creatures and his own version of king kong was hugely successful. But the rings trilogy put him on the map. And Peter Jackson has had a cameo in every movie hes directed, from bad taste to king kong and even the rings movies. In his latest film, he plays a dwarf. I understand there was a time when you did not like to wear shoes and would only wear really shorts. I still dont really wear shoes. I wore shoes today just for you. For the last six or eight weeks, i havent worn shoes. Reporter the person you dont see is fran walsh, jacksons partner who stays private to give their two children a normal life. They cowrote all of the rings and the hobbit movies. But few know her influence or that she wrote and directed one of the rings most iconic scenes. This schizophrenic talk with the characters self. Its probably the most famous scene in the film. She should direct more movies. I trust fran more than i trust anyone else in the world. Reporter with her by his side, hes making a moviemaking empire in wellington. With special effects facilities, sound stages and a stateoftheart production out, its here that jackson pioneers was called performs capture which is how gollum is brought to life and even more so in the hobbit as he see in this exclusive clip. What weve been able to do in the last intervening ten years is build a lot more muscle systems for his face. So basically what youre trying to do with performance capture is to allow every nuance of what andy does to be accurately transferred to the gollum puppet. Reporter you smile. Its fun for you. Yeah, yeah, creating an emotional character whos completely unofficial. Reporter jackson invited us behind the scenes. I recognize this scene. Oh, yes, the trolls. Reporter and shared some secrets. As hes moving, thats whats happening on the screen. How does that work exactly . All these guys i cover in these little dots. The spoon he has, all of these are being photographed live by a series of cameras all around the room. Between them, all the cameras have a discussion and figures out who talks to who. Reporter but how does he capture characters at vastly different heights . He invited me on screen to explain. You want me to be gandolf. Im bilbo. What i have to do is if i look at the screen and i just point with my hands and thats where your eyes are, i get a mark up on the ceiling right there. Reporter so your eyes are there. Im looking there. This is tough on the actor. Im Walking Around and glancing back up at you and im going past you. It gets confusing because now we have to turn all the way around. And now were really in trouble. Reporter oh, dear. At the same time, a lot of the film is low tech, literally low. On the days that we havent got time to do any of this, if you were gandolf, youd stand on a box. If im a hobbit, im on my knees. If you go behind anns shoulder and ann look down at me, thats exactly how he did a lot of the film was done like this. Reporter the hobbit is in 3d and its the first film ever shot at 48 frames per second, a more realistic look that will be tested in some theaters. But while jackson pushes technology, he doesnt forget his predecessors. And look closely, hes holding the structure of the model used in the original king kong. This is one of the most precious things that i own. Because the motion capture stage we have is just through the doors there, i wanted to make sure that everyone that comes into the stage is reminded of how animation began. The connection between me and that 9yearold boy watching this movie in black and white on tv for the very first time, that connection is so close. Reporter maybe its the boy in him, but he also owns the car from the film Chitty Chitty bang bang. But none of that compares to what he has in his own back yard. They get smashed up and taken to the dump. Fran and i are sentimentally attached. We asked, can we keep the set . And they said, yes. So we dug a whole in a hill and put it into the hill and covered it over with dirt. And its our sort of guesthouse now. Elijah woodards stayed there. Reporter theres a big, round green door. Exactly as it is in the movie. It has all the props from the movie, too. When we had to recreate it for the hobbit, we had to build a brandnew one because that one was buried in the hill. So we had to recreate it. I couldnt throw that one away either. Reporter why would he . After all, Peter Jackson has devoted a quarter f of his life by bringing it to the big screen. Do you think youll look back on these films, these six films, eventually, as your greatest legacy . Its an interesting question. Obviously if i said, yes, id be saying im assuming im never going to make anything that people regard with quite as good as that. But the realistic question is that may well be the case. Great story. Our thanks to ark, a. We wanted to let you know, ann will interview the cast of the hobbit tomorrow morning on today. Were back with more right after this. [ male announcer ] its that time of year again. Time for citi price rewind. Because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. And you really dont want to pay more than you have to. Only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. And if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. Just use your citi card and register your purchase online. Have a super sparkly day ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. Citi price rewind. Start saving at citi. Com pricerewind. Your mouth has been snacking, gift stacking, nutcracking and yellowing. Because if youre not whitening, youre yellowing. 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