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

~Peter Jackson

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If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.

~Peter Jackson

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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.

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When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive.

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My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

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

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The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material.

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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, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

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

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Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Director

Born: October 31st, 1961

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