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It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that…
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Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on…
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There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then…
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You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range…
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When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
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All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
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I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.
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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole…
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I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
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I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.
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The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that…
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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most…
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves…
— Sean Astin
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Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy…
— Orlando Bloom
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I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
— David Wenham
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Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
— Ian Mckellen
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I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.
— John Boorman
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Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted…
— Cornelia Funke
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A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly…
— Billy Boyd
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I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and…
— George R. R. Martin
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They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.
— George R. R. Martin
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Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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