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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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" 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

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" 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. "

" If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. "

" I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama. "

Peter Jackson

Drama

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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. "

" Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film. "

" I'm not a regret guy. "

Peter Jackson

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" I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to. "

" I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking. "

" I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. "

" If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book. "

" In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes. "

" There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure. "

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

" Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time. "

" Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. "

" New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo! "

" I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting. "

" 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. "

" The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit. "

" It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep. "

" 'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about. "

" 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. "

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

" Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little. "