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" The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it. "

" 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. "

" For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. "

" I love collaborating with people. "

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

" I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists. "

" I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to. "

" 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. "

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

" I haven't got a real job. "

" The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. "

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

" We've all forgotten how to be original. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better. "

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

" You never make movies for Oscars. "

" To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on. "

" People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI as if it's responsible for a drop in standards. "

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

" The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. "

" I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing. "

" When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script. "

" To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films. "

" I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders. "

" 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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