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" To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on. "
Peter Jackson
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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 always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. "
Peter Jackson
About
View
Who
" 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? "
Peter Jackson
Now
Black-And-White
Silent
" I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself. "
Peter Jackson
Always
Happy
Gamble
" 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
" We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies. "
Peter Jackson
Movies
Teenagers
Living
" Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. "
Peter Jackson
Prosthetic
Makeup
Frustrating
" I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to. "
Peter Jackson
Questions
Million
About
" While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people. "
Peter Jackson
Innocence
People
You
" Anything you can imagine, you can put on film. "
Peter Jackson
You
Film
Anything
" Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them. "
Peter Jackson
You
People
Movies
" Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. "
Peter Jackson
Filmmaking
Never
Me
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Lovely
Matter
Film
" 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
" I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting. "
Peter Jackson
Look
Out
Experience
" 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
Years
Things
Stories
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Get
You
Point
" The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater? "
Peter Jackson
Serious
Audience
You
" The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. "
Peter Jackson
CGI
Labor
Majority
" 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. "
Peter Jackson
Years
Never
Movies
" 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! "
Peter Jackson
Head
New
Small
" It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep. "
Peter Jackson
Time
Your
Happy
" As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen. "
Peter Jackson
Words
Trying
Movies
" If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy. "
Peter Jackson
Yourself
Strong
Time
" 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
Want
Like
Creative
" I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about. "
Peter Jackson
Directing
Film
Great
" Once upon a time, sound was new technology. "
Peter Jackson
Technology
Time
Sound
" I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself. "
Peter Jackson
Bit
Bullied
Little
" '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
" I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to. "
Peter Jackson
One Day
Day
Hope