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" 100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be? "
Now
Black-And-White
Silent
" 48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. I've got absolute belief and faith in 48 frames... it's something that could have ramifications for the entire industry. 'The Hobbit' really is the test of that. "
Faith
Belief
Test
" Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea. "
People
Character
Look
" Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility. "
Story
Faithful
Moment
" Anything you can imagine, you can put on film. "
You
Film
Anything
" As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen. "
Words
Trying
Movies
" As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.' "
You
Love
Nothing
" 'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into. "
Film
Desire
Bad
" Being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the names of some of my childhood heroes is slightly surreal and incredibly awesome. "
Fame
Childhood
Heroes
" Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time. "
Great
Think
General
" Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better. "
Will
Stem
Change
" Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film. "
Virus
Film
Critics
" Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. "
Moments
Insignificant
Big
" Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them. "
You
People
Movies
" Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. "
Duty
You
Think
" Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process. "
Process
Like
End
" Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. "
Filmmaking
Never
Me
" For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. "
Because
Childhood
Know
" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "
People
See
Failure
" Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes. "
Eyes
Comfortable
Better
" 'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about. "
Creatures
Famous
New
" I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. "
About
View
Who
" I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama. "
Drama
Media
Am
" I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment. "
Responsibility
Employment
Everyone
" I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father. "
Kids
Through
Want
" I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames. "
Minutes
Write
Watch
" I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work. "
Work
New
Myself
" I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible. "
Want
Like
Creative
" I don't quite know what an auteur is. "
Quite
Know
" I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal. "
Anything
Film
Want
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