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" I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. "

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" As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.' "

" Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off. "

" I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to. "

" 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. "

" The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit. "

" I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames. "

" I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together. "

" You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet. "

" I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal. "

" Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it. "

" Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world. "

" Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time. "

" I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process. "

" There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure. "

" You never make movies for Oscars. "

" Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better. "

" I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor. "

" I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting. "

" Once upon a time, sound was new technology. "

" I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently. "

" I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film. "

" If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book. "

" We've all forgotten how to be original. "

" I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine. "

" To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. "

" Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes. "

" You can't always look at life as a miserable thing. "