Quotes by Peter Jackson

“I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you did...”

“Aragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop 'til nightfall.Pippin: But what about breakfast?Aragorn: You've already had it.Pippin: We've had one, yes. But what about second breakfast?[Aragorn stares at him,...”

“It comes in pints?”

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

“The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're g...”

“If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.”

“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.”

“'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.”

“Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.”

“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.”

“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 ...”

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

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

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

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

“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' real...”

“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.”

“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.”