Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book. "

" I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie. "

" 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 first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling. "

" You never make movies for Oscars. "

" Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea. "

" Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. "

" I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None. "

" 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? "

Black-And-White

" There is a lot of 'Halo' movie material no one has ever seen in New Zealand. "

" To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker. "

" I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough. "

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

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