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" 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. "
Peter Jackson
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" I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that we've played with. "
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Amazing
Think
" To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films. "
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" If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it. "
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" Anything you can imagine, you can put on film. "
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You
Film
Anything
" When I worked as a newspaper photo engraver in the only job I ever had, many years ago, I'd get the train home to Pukerua Bay where I was staying with my parents. An hour ride, 16 stops, and almost always, I'd have automatic wake-up, seconds before we pulled into my station. "
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Always
Train
Ride
" When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive. "
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Three
Lost
You
" I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment. "
Peter Jackson
Responsibility
Employment
Everyone
" You never make movies for Oscars. "
Peter Jackson
Make
You
Oscars
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Work
New
Myself
" I haven't got a real job. "
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Got
Real Job
Job
" I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported. "
Peter Jackson
Audience
Want
Always
" Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end. "
Peter Jackson
Down
You
Through
" I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting. "
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Look
Out
Experience
" In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes. "
Peter Jackson
Possibilities
Great
You
" No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. "
Peter Jackson
Film
Imagination
King
" I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about. "
Peter Jackson
Directing
Film
Great
" 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? "
Peter Jackson
Now
Black-And-White
Silent
" There are perennial stories like 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Sherlock Holmes' and those sorts of things, which have been around since almost as long as film, and 'Frankenstein' is another one. They're perennial favorites, which get remade every 20 years, and that's OK. "
Peter Jackson
Years
Things
Stories
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Process
Like
End
" There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.' "
Peter Jackson
Rings
Shared
Lord
" I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists. "
Peter Jackson
Get
Embarrassed
Always
" Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is. "
Peter Jackson
Skin
You
Way
" We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made. "
Peter Jackson
Happy
Emotions
Be Happy
" I'm thinking about doing a First World War film. "
Peter Jackson
War
World
Doing
" Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves. "
Peter Jackson
Animals
Wolves
Wild
" I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama. "
Peter Jackson
Drama
Media
Am
" I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling. "
Peter Jackson
Book
Storytelling
Monster
" I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up. "
Peter Jackson
Living
Technology
Think
" It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming. "
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Going
Too Much
Much
" I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it. "
Peter Jackson
Dream
Control
I Can