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" The producers of 'The Hobbit' take the welfare of all animals very seriously and have always pursued the highest standard of care for animals in their charge. "
Peter Jackson
Seriously
Animals
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" I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly. "
Peter Jackson
Think
Blood
Body
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Grateful
Lucky
Feel
" If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness. "
Peter Jackson
Fairness
Fair
Hope
" Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that. "
Peter Jackson
Hollywood
Want
Interesting
" I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to. "
Peter Jackson
Questions
Million
About
" For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. "
Peter Jackson
Because
Childhood
Know
" I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that we've played with. "
Peter Jackson
Ball
Amazing
Think
" I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor. "
Peter Jackson
You
Move On
Lose
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Doing
Trying
Thought
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Film
Late
Lord
" 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
" We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made. "
Peter Jackson
Happy
Emotions
Be Happy
" To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. "
Peter Jackson
Lord
Audience
Career
" I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. "
Peter Jackson
Never
First
First Place
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Three
Lost
You
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Story
Talk
Drop
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Know
You
Starting
" Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off. "
Peter Jackson
Film
Money
Off
" To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker. "
Peter Jackson
Original
Quality
You
" What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies. "
Peter Jackson
Pompous
Pretentious
Movies
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Fun
End
Theme
" When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together. "
Peter Jackson
Up
Film
Got
" I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal. "
Peter Jackson
Anything
Film
Want
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
People
Character
Look
" The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot. "
Peter Jackson
Eating
Street
Carrot
" It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier. "
Peter Jackson
Doing
Kid
You
" As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.' "
Peter Jackson
You
Love
Nothing
" There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.' "
Peter Jackson
Rings
Shared
Lord
" 'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination. "
Peter Jackson
Imagination
Lord
World
" Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better. "
Peter Jackson
Will
Stem
Change