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" 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. "
Peter Jackson
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" It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does. "
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" It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier. "
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" I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. "
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" One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. "
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" 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? "
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" You never make movies for Oscars. "
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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. "
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" If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. "
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" When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script. "
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" I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. "
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" I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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