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The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

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

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.

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

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

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

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

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

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

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

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

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

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

It's interesting how the frame rate actually changes the perception of the 3D as well as making it more comfortable to watch.

Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating.

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.

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

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

I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film.

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.

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to.

I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.

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

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.

I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

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.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

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

It comes in pints?

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

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?

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.

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

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

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in a row, there will be a consistency of tone.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.

You never make movies for Oscars.

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

I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

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.

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.

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

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats ... I want audiences to be transported.

I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

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.

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

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

Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.

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

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

'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.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.

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.

I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment.

I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.

I'm not a regret guy.

Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.'

I just got to the point where I literally didn't want anyone else to do it.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place.

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

We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.

I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.

I love collaborating with people.

I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.

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.

Defeat is always momentary.

I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.

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

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.'

I don't quite know what an auteur is.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.