Geoff Murphy ONMZ (born 13 June 1946) is an iconic New Zealand filmmaker best known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the last half of the 1970s. His second feature Goodbye Pork Pie (1981) was the first New Zealand movie to win major commercial success on its own soil.Murphy directed a string of Hollywood features during the 1990s, before returning to New Zealand as second unit director on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.The versatile Murphy has also been a scriptwriter, special effects technician, schoolteacher and trumpet player.He was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2014 New Year Honours List.
I'm never happy with any film I do. Maybe the birth pains prejudice you or something. Often you can't separate the process from the result.
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I take them one at a time. I don't really care. There has to be something in there that sparks an interest in me. I'm not very career-oriented, so I feel quite free to take the time I need to take.
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There are two ways of being rich. One is to have so much money that you have everything you want. The other is not to want anything. And you can be quite rich either way.
$700,000
