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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.

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Peter Jackson
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: October 31
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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.
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If you work at love, you will find love at work.
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I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.
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I just got to the point where I literally didn't want anyone else to do it.
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The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.
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When I start a film, I can sort of shut my eyes, sit somewhere quiet and imagine the movie finished. I can imagine the camera angles, I can even imagine the type of music. Without knowing the tune, I can imagine the type of music it needs to be.
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[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.
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The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.
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One does not simply walk into Mordor.
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Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.
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Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.
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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.
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What is the truth is that every one of my films is a film that I'd love to go see, and I think that's very important because I always think it's a mistake to make movies for other people, or to make them for a demographic, or try to second guess an audience.
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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.
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In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.
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New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
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As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.
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I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope.
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Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
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