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" I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie. "

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" I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess. "

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" I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing. "

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" 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. "

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

" What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None. "

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

" 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. "

" When I worked as a newspaper photo engraver in the only job I ever had, many years ago, I'd get the train home to Pukerua Bay where I was staying with my parents. An hour ride, 16 stops, and almost always, I'd have automatic wake-up, seconds before we pulled into my station. "

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