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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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" '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. "

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" If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. "

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

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

" We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies. "

" The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands. "

" 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. "

" I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot. "

" 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. "

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

" Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' "

" 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. "

" I'm not a regret guy. "

Peter Jackson

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" If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before. "

" 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. "

" Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that. "

" We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting. "

" I don't quite know what an auteur is. "

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" 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

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" Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little. "

" 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. "

" To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on. "

" Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. "

" Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character. "

" 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. "

Peter Jackson

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