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.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

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

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

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

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

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.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

I am a gardener of thoughts, and my garden only grows flowers of love.

My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink.

If is see darkness in Christians, I bring light to them.

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. It just doesn't.

Who can judge another man's suffering?

For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.

There's no thought given to the individual because there aren't any individuals in socialism; everybody's the same.