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

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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. "

" I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father. "

" 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. "

" There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.' "

" I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work. "

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

" The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. "

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

" 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. "

" 100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be? "

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" 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. "

" I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to. "

" 'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive. "

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

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

" There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me. "

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

" Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. "

" I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things. "