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" 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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" There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now. "

" I don't quite know what an auteur is. "

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" 'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time. "

" 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. "

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

" Anything you can imagine, you can put on film. "

" While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people. "

" You never make movies for Oscars. "

" 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. "

" Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in. "

" 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. "