Author Profile
Peter Jackson
1961 • New Zealander • Director
64
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 64 quotes'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.— Peter Jackson
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.— Peter Jackson
There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.'— Peter Jackson
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.— Peter Jackson
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.— Peter Jackson
Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.— Peter Jackson
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.— Peter Jackson
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.— Peter Jackson
To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.— Peter Jackson
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.— Peter Jackson
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.— Peter Jackson
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.— Peter Jackson