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" I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. "
Peter Jackson
Never
First
First Place
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" I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly. "
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Blood
Body
" 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. "
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Talk
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" It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming. "
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Too Much
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" What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies. "
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Movies
" 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? "
Peter Jackson
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You
" I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about. "
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Film
Great
" The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. "
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Most
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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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Book
Storytelling
Monster
" While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people. "
Peter Jackson
Innocence
People
You
" I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process. "
Peter Jackson
Great
Love
Start
" One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible. "
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Yourself
Work Hard
Faith
" You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet. "
Peter Jackson
Want
You
Internet
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Fun
End
Theme
" The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before Tolkien sold the rights. They approached him, and he said, 'No.' "
Peter Jackson
Before
Rights
Said
" Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' "
Peter Jackson
Potential
Now
Been
" The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. "
Peter Jackson
Only
The Only Thing
About
" I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking. "
Peter Jackson
School
Enjoy
Learning
" I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself. "
Peter Jackson
Bit
Bullied
Little
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Years
Things
Stories
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Possibilities
Great
You
" We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting. "
Peter Jackson
Interesting
Past
Film
" I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders. "
Peter Jackson
Grateful
Lucky
Feel
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Skin
You
Way
" I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama. "
Peter Jackson
Drama
Media
Am
" I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported. "
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Audience
Want
Always
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
You
Beginning
Drop
" Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility. "
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Story
Faithful
Moment
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Want
Time
Meetings
" I'm not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don't do a Marvel film, I don't have any other choice - I've got to go make a small New Zealand movie! "
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Head
New
Small
" I love collaborating with people. "
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Love
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