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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. "

Peter Jackson

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" I'm not a regret guy. "

Peter Jackson

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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. "

" I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal. "

" I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. "

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

" 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. "

" We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies. "

" I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing. "

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

" 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. "

" One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. "

Peter Jackson

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Batman

" Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough. "

" The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. "

" We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting. "

" I'm not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don't do a Marvel film, I don't have any other choice - I've got to go make a small New Zealand movie! "

" Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility. "

" 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. "

Peter Jackson

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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. "

" 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. "

" Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end. "

" If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. "

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

" Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it. "

" 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 almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does. "

" I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things. "

" I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported. "

" I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out. "

" While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people. "

" I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film. "