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" Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility. "

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" 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

Filmmaking

Think

Storytelling

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

" '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. "

" It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep. "

" Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. "

" As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen. "

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

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

" Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. "

" The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. "

" The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material. "

" I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists. "

" I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames. "

" The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. "

" I don't quite know what an auteur is. "

Peter Jackson

Quite

Know

" 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. "

" I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film. "

" Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You never make movies for Oscars. "

" 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

Start

Night

" We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough. "

" When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script. "