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" I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea. "

" 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. "

" The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater? "

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

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

" Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming. "

" If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it. "

" I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that we've played with. "

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

" I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas. "

" While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The producers of 'The Hobbit' take the welfare of all animals very seriously and have always pursued the highest standard of care for animals in their charge. "

" I'm thinking about doing a First World War film. "

" People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s. "

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

" 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. "