Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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

Story

Talk

Drop

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

" I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine. "

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

" 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. "

" Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. "

Peter Jackson

Filmmaking

Never

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I worked as a newspaper photo engraver in the only job I ever had, many years ago, I'd get the train home to Pukerua Bay where I was staying with my parents. An hour ride, 16 stops, and almost always, I'd have automatic wake-up, seconds before we pulled into my station. "

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

Peter Jackson

Movies

Batman

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible. "

" I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father. "

" I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place. "

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

" 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. "

" To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films. "

" 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 have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it. "

" New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. "

" When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive. "

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

" I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly. "

" Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film. "

" Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in. "

" I'm not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don't do a Marvel film, I don't have any other choice - I've got to go make a small New Zealand movie! "

" 'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination. "

" 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

Direction

You