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" The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before Tolkien sold the rights. They approached him, and he said, 'No.' "
Peter Jackson
Before
Rights
Said
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" Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes. "
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Better
" 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. "
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" I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing. "
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" Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little. "
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Impact
" I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas. "
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Think
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" We've all forgotten how to be original. "
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Original
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" 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. "
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Wild
" Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. "
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Never
Me
" 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. "
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You
Us
" 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. "
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Book
Storytelling
Monster
" 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. "
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Yourself
Work Hard
Faith
" The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. "
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Most
Becoming
Dependable
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Friends
Lost
Personal
" 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. "
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Doing
Trying
Thought
" Once upon a time, sound was new technology. "
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Technology
Time
Sound
" The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. "
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CGI
Labor
Majority
" 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. "
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Film
Imagination
King
" Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough. "
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Real
Movies
Learning
" I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking. "
Peter Jackson
School
Enjoy
Learning
" For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. "
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Because
Childhood
Know
" 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? "
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Serious
Audience
You
" If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it. "
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You
Time
Better
" Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world. "
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World
Film
Almost
" I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to. "
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Questions
Million
About
" I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported. "
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Audience
Want
Always
" I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself. "
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Bit
Bullied
Little
" 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. "
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Communication
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Always
" 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. "
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Strong
Time
" I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. "
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Never
First
First Place