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The Edge - The Birth of Weta
Television (Excerpts) – 1994
...eventually film will cease to exist I’m sure, and cameras will be recording straight onto CDs or some sort of digital medium.
– Peter Jackson foresees the future
I really like the Kiwi ingenuity. I mean we’re in a small building, in a tiny room, and we’ve got all this gear. We bought it and didn’t have a clue really how it worked. We've figured it out ourselves, and learnt a lot from it. We’re kind of doing it. They [Hollywood] can do it, so we can do it. It’s a real Kiwi attitude I think, which is kind of fun.
– Peter Jackson on taking on Hollywood from Tasman Street in Wellington
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