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" The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making. "

Peter Jackson

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Peter Jackson

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" You can't always look at life as a miserable thing. "

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