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

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The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. Peter Jackson

Movies, Most, Form

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. Peter Jackson

Small, New, Country

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be? Peter Jackson

Silent, Going, Frames

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. Peter Jackson

Other, Some, Part

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas. Peter Jackson

Storytelling, Think, Other

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities. Peter Jackson

Smiling, Going, Side

We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made. Peter Jackson

Happy, Own, Touched

I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo! Peter Jackson

Love, Relate, I Love

Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is. Peter Jackson

Skeletons, Which, CGI

If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before. Peter Jackson

Chapter, Before, Whole

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One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible. Peter Jackson

Work Hard, New, Prepared

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character. Peter Jackson

Other, Superior, Infinitely

I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling. Peter Jackson

Lord, Caught, Prolific

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. Peter Jackson

Achieving, Never, Always

Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. Peter Jackson

Makeup, Always, Prosthetic

Once upon a time, sound was new technology. Peter Jackson

New, Sound, Once

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific. Peter Jackson

Disease, Close Friends

I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking. Peter Jackson

Think, I Think, Film School

I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself. Peter Jackson

Been, Always, Take

Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves. Peter Jackson

Deer, Fact, Rabbits

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. Peter Jackson

Through, Created, Author

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. Peter Jackson

Career, Oscar, Films

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. Peter Jackson

Most, Dependable, Becoming

I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film. Peter Jackson

Think, Remarkable, Jaws

We've all forgotten how to be original. Peter Jackson

Original, Be Original, How

It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming. Peter Jackson

Going, Too, Longer

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