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" When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive. "
Peter Jackson
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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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" When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together. "
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" The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material. "
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" You can't always look at life as a miserable thing. "
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" Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end. "
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" It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away. "
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" We've all forgotten how to be original. "
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" Anything you can imagine, you can put on film. "
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" Once upon a time, sound was new technology. "
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" I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported. "
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" No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. "
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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 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. "
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" I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father. "
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" For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. "
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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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" I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting. "
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" 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? "
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" I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment. "
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" One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible. "
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" 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. "
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" We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific. "
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" I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking. "
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" I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes. "
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" 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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