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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. "

Peter Jackson

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" Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep. "

" I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end. "

" Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough. "

" I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work. "

" My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli. "

" I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI as if it's responsible for a drop in standards. "

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

" 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. "

" I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists. "

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

" I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations. "

" 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. "