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" I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself. "

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves. "

" 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'm not a regret guy. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit. "

" 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. "

" I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy. "

" Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. "

" People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI as if it's responsible for a drop in standards. "

" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "

" I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up. "

" Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is. "