Peter Jackson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Peter Jackson on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
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.
Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.
I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.
It's interesting how the frame rate actually changes the perception of the 3D as well as making it more comfortable to watch.
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.
'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.
When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.
I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.
The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.
I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations.
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.
I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.
Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.
It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier.
If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.
One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.
If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?
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.
The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.
I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in a row, there will be a consistency of tone.
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.
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.
I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.
I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats ... I want audiences to be transported.
I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes.
As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.
'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.
I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.
Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.
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.
Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.'
Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.
I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.
If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.