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

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" We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific. "

" 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'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. "

" I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama. "

" 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. "

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

" Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into. "

" I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to. "

" As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.' "

" My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli. "