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" There is a lot of 'Halo' movie material no one has ever seen in New Zealand. "

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

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

" As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.' "

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

" Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. "

" I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas. "

" 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. "

" I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess. "

" Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. "

" I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie. "

" Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" You never make movies for Oscars. "

" We've all forgotten how to be original. "

" 100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be? "

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

" I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling. "

" I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. "

" 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. "

" There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now. "

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" Being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the names of some of my childhood heroes is slightly surreal and incredibly awesome. "

" If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before. "

" I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about. "

" Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes. "

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

" I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine. "

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

" For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. "

" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "