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" It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming. "

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" Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character. "

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

" Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. "

" The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late '60s, the film rights. "

" If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it. "

" We've all forgotten how to be original. "

" I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself. "

" Being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the names of some of my childhood heroes is slightly surreal and incredibly awesome. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies. "

" To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. "

" 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. "

" I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. "

" 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. "

" As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen. "

" I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. "

" 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. "

" Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' "

" You never make movies for Oscars. "

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

" 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. "