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" 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? "

Peter Jackson

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

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

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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. "

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