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" I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo! "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into. "

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

" It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away. "

" There is a lot of 'Halo' movie material no one has ever seen in New Zealand. "

" I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal. "

" Rivalry doesn't help anybody. "

" One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. "

" I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor. "

" I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up. "

" What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I haven't got a real job. "

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

" I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself. "

" 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. "

" If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness. "

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

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

" I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment. "