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" There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me. "
Peter Jackson
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world. "
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" I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it. "
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" I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess. "
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" It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep. "
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" The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. "
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" Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. "
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" In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare. "
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" There is a lot of 'Halo' movie material no one has ever seen in New Zealand. "
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" Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character. "
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" I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal. "
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" 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. "
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Talk
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" '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. "
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World
" I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations. "
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" It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming. "
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Going
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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. "
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You
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" 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. "
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" New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. "
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" I love collaborating with people. "
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" We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies. "
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" Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. "
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" The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot. "
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" I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to. "
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" I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself. "
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" 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. "
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