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I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations.

~Peter Jackson

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I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing.

~Peter Jackson

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I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work.

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To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films.

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To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

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I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

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There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.'

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The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands.

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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 film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into.

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'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Director

Born: October 31st, 1961

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