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" I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames. "
Peter Jackson
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" There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me. "
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" Rivalry doesn't help anybody. "
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" 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. "
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" We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific. "
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" 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. "
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" As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.' "
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" I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things. "
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" The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late '60s, the film rights. "
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" Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' "
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" New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. "
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" There is a lot of 'Halo' movie material no one has ever seen in New Zealand. "
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New Zealand
Seen
Zealand
" I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. "
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" It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does. "
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You
Book
" It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming. "
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" 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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Ride
" The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. "
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Becoming
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" While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people. "
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" I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself. "
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" I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out. "
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Three
Back
Ending
" In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare. "
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Lovely
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Film
" If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy. "
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Yourself
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Time
" 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. "
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Wild
" I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to. "
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Million
About
" To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker. "
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" I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself. "
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Always
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" I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. "
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Never
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" I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess. "
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" 'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination. "
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" 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. "
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Control
I Can