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• ‟ The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

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• ‟ As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen.

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• ‟ No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

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• ‟ What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

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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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• ‟ There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.

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• ‟ I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

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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 real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in.

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• ‟ I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.

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• ‟ I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.

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• ‟ I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

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• ‟ I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.

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• ‟ Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it.

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• ‟ Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

  - Peter Jackson