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" 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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" 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 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. "

" Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them. "

" When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together. "

" Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough. "

" I'm not a regret guy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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! "

" 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. "

" Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process. "

" I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported. "

" You never make movies for Oscars. "

" New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. "

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

" You can't always look at life as a miserable thing. "

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

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

" 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. "

" To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker. "

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

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

" If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. "

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

" The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. "

" '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. "

" I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out. "

" I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations. "