Peter Jackson Quotes

Aragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop 'til nightfall.Pippin: But what about breakfast?Aragorn: You've a...

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. ...

The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker bec...

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw t...

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, w...

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and m...

48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. I've got absolute belief and faith in 48 ...

One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and ...

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking ...

Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the t...

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

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

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

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

I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for...

I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film sc...

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

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War ...

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case...

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on ...

I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stor...

There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isol...

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

It comes in pints?

I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it ...

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatienc...

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up...