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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. "

" In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare. "

" We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor. "

" 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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" I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father. "

" Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off. "

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

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

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

" There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure. "

" The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands. "

" 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. "

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

" The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end. "

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

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

" People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s. "

" I haven't got a real job. "

" 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. "

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