Cinema Quote by Peter Jackson

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

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

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I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is,…

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

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You shouldn't think of these movies as being 'The Lord of the Rings.' The Lord of the Rings is, and always will be, a…

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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…

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

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To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic…

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'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the…

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To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because…

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

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Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are…

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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…

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There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.

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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

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I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

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