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As A Filmmaker, You

Peter Jackson

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As A Filmmaker, You Are Going To Manipulate The Character As You Need To Make The Scenes Work.

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When You're Directing, You're Right At The Coal Face, Always Exhausted, Often Emotional - And I'll Enjoy Being A Couple Of Steps Back From That And Simply Helping Where I Can.

And So I Look Back On Not Just The Last Ten Years But Everything That I've Done As Being Sort Of An Ongoing Growing Continual Film School. I Mean I Don't Think I've Got To A Point Where I've Achieved Anything That Feels Like, A Particular Milestone, But There's Still A Lot More To Learn And Hopefully A Lot More Films To Make.

What Is The Truth Is That Every One Of My Films Is A Film That I'd Love To Go See, And I Think That's Very Important Because I Always Think It's A Mistake To Make Movies For Other People, Or To Make Them For A Demographic, Or Try To Second Guess An Audience.

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People Call Kong "a Monster." He's Not. There's Nothing Evil About Kong. He's Just Another Creature Who Has Opened Up A Little Bit Of His Heart To Ann And It Proves To Be His Undoing.

I Mean, I Didn't Have A Huge Upbringing With Movies, I Guess.

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I Just Got To The Point Where I Literally Didn't Want Anyone Else To Do It.

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I Want To Make Movies Just Like "king Kong." You Know, Dinosaurs, Big Gorillas - It's Everything That A Nine Year-old Boy Would Fall In Love With.

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No Matter How Many Great Performances Or Exciting Visuals We Put Together For The Movie, We Found That It Was All Somewhat Two Dimensional Until We Added The Emotional Heart Of Howard Shore's Music. Then, And Only Then, Did The Film Come To Life.

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New Zealand Is Not Used To Wealth. In America Wealth Is Kind Of A Thing Of Pride. Here It's The Opposite. The More You've Got, The Bigger The Target You Are.

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Structure Is Important In Film, But There's Often Structure To Be Found In The Most Unlikely Of Places! It's Quite Possible To Build A Structured Story And Retain Idiosyncrasy.

I Am A Big Dragon Fan. I've Said It Before- And I Was Fortunate Enough To Be Born A Dragon In The Chinese Horocope.

I Find That In The Process Of Making A Film You're Constantly Discovering Things That You Never Even Imagined Would Work At The Beginning. Actors Come Into The Film And Do Things You Never Even Imagined. Production Designers Come In, The Director Of Photography Lights It In A Way That You Never Imagined. So, It's Always Evolving, Always Exciting.

There's No Real Rules About What You Do [while Directing]; It's Just You Just Use Your Instincts As To The Pacing Of A Film And What Is Repetitive And What Is The Minimum Amount You Can Get Away With To Tell The Story, That Scene Didn't Make It In.

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I Wanted People To Believe That There Could Still Be This Little Undiscovered Piece Of The World That Survives Still On Skull Island.

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[while Shooting Close-ups] You Study Real Eyes, You Study How The Light Reflects In Them, You Study The Back Of The Eye, You Study The Way Irises Reflect Emotion. You Go Into Great Scientific Detail.

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