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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. "

" We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made. "

" One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. "

" One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible. "

" 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. "

" I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film. "

" There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.' "

" It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. "

" I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations. "

" Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film. "

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