Peter Jackson

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

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

I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to.

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

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

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.

I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to.

There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.'

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

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.

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

It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.

It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.

I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

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

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

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 sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.

I'm thinking about doing a First World War film.