“I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.”
Peter Jackson (1961) New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter
Hobbit interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3n0fNVhADE&feature=youtu.be&t=7m25s, 2012.
“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”
— Jean Webster, book Daddy-Long-Legs
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American novelist 1876–1916Related quotes
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