Peter Jackson Quotes

It comes in pints? ~ Peter Jackson

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now. ~ Peter Jackson

Directed By: Peter Jackson Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen ~ Jamerson INC

The memory from Sundance that I hold dearest is a snowball fight. One night I went outside with Lorri, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh. It was the first time I'd touched snow in almost twenty years. It was perfect. It was pure and unblemished, and as white as the moon. And then we went into a frenzy, running wild and throwing snowballs at each other. Peter was laughing like a child, and Fran squealed in delight as she was pelted. I'll see it in my head until the day I die. ~ Damien Echols

There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me. ~ Peter Jackson

Arbogast had then assembled a dream team of creative consultants and contractors to help make his bold claim a reality, luring some of the videogame industry's brightest stars away from their own companies and projects, with the sole promise of collaborating on his groundbreaking new MMOs. That was how gaming legends like Chris Roberts, Richard Garriott, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Gabe Newell, and Shigeru Miyamoto had all wound up as consultants on both Terra Firma and Armada - along with several big Hollywood filmmakers, including James Cameron, who had contributed to the EDA's realistic ship and mech designs, and Peter Jackson, whose Weta Workshop had rendered all of the in-game cinematics. ~ Ernest Cline

Frodo: 'It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill Gollum when he had the chance.'
Gandalf: 'Pity? It's a pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.' Frodo: 'I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.'
Gandalf: 'So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides that of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, in which case you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

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

As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed. ~ Eli Roth

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.' ~ Peter Jackson

In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare. ~ Peter Jackson

I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. ~ Peter Jackson

I love collaborating with people. ~ Peter Jackson

The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making. ~ Peter Jackson

The one thing with 3D presentations is I think that 3D itself, whether it's 24 or 48, is at a very interesting point in time. ~ Peter Jackson

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. ~ Peter Jackson

We've all forgotten how to be original. ~ Peter Jackson

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None. ~ Peter Jackson

People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI as if it's responsible for a drop in standards. ~ Peter Jackson

I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself. ~ Peter Jackson

I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling. ~ Peter Jackson

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas. ~ Peter Jackson

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. ~ Peter Jackson

The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before Tolkien sold the rights. They approached him, and he said, 'No.' ~ Peter Jackson

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with ~ Peter Jackson

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. ~ Peter Jackson

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. ~ Peter Jackson

In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously ... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes. ~ Peter Jackson

You shouldn't think of these movies as being 'The Lord of the Rings.' The Lord of the Rings is, and always will be, a wonderful book - one of the greatest ever written. Any films will only ever be an INTERPRETATION of the book. In this case my interpretation. ~ Peter Jackson

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. ~ Peter Jackson

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about. ~ Peter Jackson

There is a lot of 'Halo' movie material no one has ever seen in New Zealand. ~ Peter Jackson

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. ~ Peter Jackson

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat. ~ Peter Jackson

I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out. ~ Peter Jackson

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal. ~ Peter Jackson

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. ~ Peter Jackson

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. ~ Peter Jackson

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. ~ Peter Jackson

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. ~ Peter Jackson

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. ~ Peter Jackson

I'm thinking about doing a First World War film. ~ Peter Jackson

Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker. ~ Andy Serkis

Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end. ~ Peter Jackson

Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine. ~ Peter Jackson

Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both motion-capture and traditional animation to build a system. ~ Peter Jackson

Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it. ~ Peter Jackson

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away. ~ Peter Jackson

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders. ~ Peter Jackson

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible. ~ Peter Jackson

Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better. ~ Peter Jackson

Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes. ~ Peter Jackson

'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into. ~ Peter Jackson

The producers of 'The Hobbit' take the welfare of all animals very seriously and have always pursued the highest standard of care for animals in their charge. ~ Peter Jackson

I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people loved, and suddenly CDs were threatening. ~ Peter Jackson

I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists. ~ Peter Jackson

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats ... I want audiences to be transported. ~ Peter Jackson

As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.' ~ Richard C. Armitage

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. ~ Peter Jackson

There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure. ~ Peter Jackson

Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world. ~ Peter Jackson

I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about. ~ Peter Jackson

I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work. ~ Peter Jackson

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. ~ Peter Jackson

I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting. ~ Peter Jackson

I just got to the point where I literally didn't want anyone else to do it. ~ Peter Jackson

If you work at love, you will find love at work. ~ Peter Jackson

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue. ~ Aidan Turner

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people. ~ Peter Jackson

In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere. ~ Aidan Turner

You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson. ~ Adam Brown

There are perennial stories like 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Sherlock Holmes' and those sorts of things, which have been around since almost as long as film, and 'Frankenstein' is another one. They're perennial favorites, which get remade every 20 years, and that's OK. ~ Peter Jackson

I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up. ~ Peter Jackson

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker. ~ Peter Jackson

I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. ~ Peter Jackson

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. ~ Peter Jackson

I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it. ~ Andy Serkis

I read 'The Hobbit' while at school. It was OK; can't really remember too much from there, other than the fact I was 10! I never read it again until the script for the film, but it has to be an amazing story when you know Sir Peter Jackson has made three films out of it. ~ Mark Hadlow

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it. ~ Peter Jackson

Everybody knows about Peter Jackson, 'The Hobbit' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films being made in New Zealand, and to actually have been part of it for such a long period, to live there and to have friends that I will have for life because of that experience, is an amazing thing. ~ Luke Evans

To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire. ~ Peter Jackson

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of. ~ Terry Pratchett

Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little. ~ Peter Jackson

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island. ~ Peter Jackson

I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking. ~ Peter Jackson

I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process. ~ Peter Jackson

The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than just finishing off the story, it's like a whole new adventure all of its own. I'm very excited about it. ~ Richard C. Armitage

Being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the names of some of my childhood heroes is slightly surreal and incredibly awesome. ~ Peter Jackson

I'm not a regret guy. ~ Peter Jackson

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in. ~ Peter Jackson

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search. ~ Peter Jackson

48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. I've got absolute belief and faith in 48 frames ... it's something that could have ramifications for the entire industry. 'The Hobbit' really is the test of that. ~ Peter Jackson

If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before. ~ Peter Jackson

I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy. ~ Peter Jackson

I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that we've played with. ~ Peter Jackson

I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo! ~ Peter Jackson

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. ~ Peter Jackson

I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing. ~ Peter Jackson

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time. ~ Peter Jackson

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk. ~ Peter Jackson