Quotes by Peter Jackson

“'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 c...”

“If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.”

“Once upon a time, sound was new technology.”

“I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the gard...”

“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 environmen...”

“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 II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.”

“Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the l...”

“There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.”

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

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

“Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with”

“I don't take stuff seriously. I saw 'Hellraiser 3' the other day at Cannes; it's OK, it's a good film, I didn't hate it or anything. I thought it was quite good, but it was all just so serious. Som...”

“And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I don't think I've got to a point where I've achiev...”

“Kong bites his head off in a PG13 kinda way”

“I'm a Derek and Dereks don't run”

“Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.”

“I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.”