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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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" 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. "

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

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

" When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script. "

" I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders. "

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

" To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker. "

" I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process. "

" '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. "

" Once upon a time, sound was new technology. "

" It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier. "

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

" I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists. "

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

" My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli. "

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

" '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. "

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

" Rivalry doesn't help anybody. "

" Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm thinking about doing a First World War film. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "