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" The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit. "
Peter Jackson
People
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Quality
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor. "
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" There are perennial stories like 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Sherlock Holmes' and those sorts of things, which have been around since almost as long as film, and 'Frankenstein' is another one. They're perennial favorites, which get remade every 20 years, and that's OK. "
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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.' "
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" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "
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" I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to. "
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" Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. "
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" I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now. "
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" When I worked as a newspaper photo engraver in the only job I ever had, many years ago, I'd get the train home to Pukerua Bay where I was staying with my parents. An hour ride, 16 stops, and almost always, I'd have automatic wake-up, seconds before we pulled into my station. "
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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. "
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" What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies. "
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