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" I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor. "
Peter Jackson
You
Move On
Lose
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Moment
" I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film. "
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Jaws
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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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Lost
Personal
" The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before Tolkien sold the rights. They approached him, and he said, 'No.' "
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Before
Rights
Said
" It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep. "
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Your
Happy
" 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. "
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You
Beginning
Drop
" Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes. "
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Eyes
Comfortable
Better
" I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father. "
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Kids
Through
Want
" Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. "
Peter Jackson
Filmmaking
Never
Me
" The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit. "
Peter Jackson
People
Now
Quality
" I haven't got a real job. "
Peter Jackson
Got
Real Job
Job
" Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little. "
Peter Jackson
Start
You
Impact
" The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. "
Peter Jackson
Most
Becoming
Dependable
" If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. "
Peter Jackson
Decision
Politics
People
" I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. "
Peter Jackson
Never
First
First Place
" '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. "
Peter Jackson
Creatures
Famous
New
" 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. "
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Faith
Belief
Test
" Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' "
Peter Jackson
Potential
Now
Been
" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "
Peter Jackson
People
See
Failure
" The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making. "
Peter Jackson
Start
Night
Me
" 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
" If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. "
Peter Jackson
Process
You
Filmmaking
" You never make movies for Oscars. "
Peter Jackson
Make
You
Oscars
" Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better. "
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Will
Stem
Change
" You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet. "
Peter Jackson
Want
You
Internet
" 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
" 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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Fun
End
Theme
" What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies. "
Peter Jackson
Pompous
Pretentious
Movies
" '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. "
Peter Jackson
Imagination
Lord
World