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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 quite know what an auteur is. "

" 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. "

" If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. "

" '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. "

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

" The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world. "

" You can't always look at life as a miserable thing. "

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

" 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. "

" The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot. "

" Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility. "

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

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

" 'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor. "

" When I worked as a newspaper photo engraver in the only job I ever had, many years ago, I'd get the train home to Pukerua Bay where I was staying with my parents. An hour ride, 16 stops, and almost always, I'd have automatic wake-up, seconds before we pulled into my station. "

" The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late '60s, the film rights. "

" You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet. "

" Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You never make movies for Oscars. "