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To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

Peter Jackson

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Peter Jackson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 31
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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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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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I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.
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When you're casting a movie and when you're shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really. Any great actor literally knows exactly how to use their eyes, and even as a filmmaker I love shooting huge close-ups because it's those eyes that mean so much to me.
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And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I don't think I've got to a point where I've achieved anything that feels like, a particular milestone, but there's still a lot more to learn and hopefully a lot more films to make.
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The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.
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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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A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.
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When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.
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I don't believe in the concept that 3D should be shot separately. I mean, every director has their own style, sure, but I don't think any of that is really an issue with 3D.
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I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.
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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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I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.
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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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Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.
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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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I just got to the point where I literally didn't want anyone else to do it.
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Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.
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I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.
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Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.
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