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Peter Jackson

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I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

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02Undated

Aragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop 'til nightfall.Pippin: But what about breakfast?Aragorn: You've already had it.Pippin: We've had one, yes. But what about second breakfast?[Aragorn stares at him, then walks off.]Merry: Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.Pippin: What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?Merry: I wouldn't count on it Pip.

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03Undated

It comes in pints?

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04Undated

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.

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05Undated

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

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06Undated

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

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07Undated

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

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08Undated

The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands.

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09Undated

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

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10Undated

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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11Undated

'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.

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12Undated

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

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13Undated

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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14Undated

I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that we've played with.

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I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work.

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16Undated

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

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17Undated

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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18Undated

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

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19Undated

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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20Undated

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?

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21Undated

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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22Undated

48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. I've got absolute belief and faith in 48 frames... it's something that could have ramifications for the entire industry. 'The Hobbit' really is the test of that.

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23Undated

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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24Undated

'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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