If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

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.

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.

I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film.

The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

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.

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

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

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

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

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

You never make movies for Oscars.

I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things.

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

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

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

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

'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.

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.

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.

Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end.

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.

There are perennial stories like 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Sherlock Holmes' and those sorts of things, which have been around since almost as long as film, and 'Frankenstein' is another one. They're perennial favorites, which get remade every 20 years, and that's OK.

Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.'

When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.

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.

When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script.

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

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.

Being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the names of some of my childhood heroes is slightly surreal and incredibly awesome.

I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly.

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

Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.

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.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

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

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

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

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

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.

There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.

48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. I've got absolute belief and faith in 48 frames... it's something that could have ramifications for the entire industry. 'The Hobbit' really is the test of that.

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.

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

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

People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.