Top 207 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Jackson - Page 2

Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.

I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

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.

I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.

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

I'm not a regret guy.

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.

We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies.

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.

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.

I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.

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

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.

I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up.

Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.

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

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

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

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.

Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.

The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making.

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.

I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out.

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 toys that we've played with.

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.

It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier.

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

Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.'

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

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

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 think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting.

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.

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!

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

I don't quite know what an auteur is.

In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare.

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 garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things.

When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.

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

Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.

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

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.

We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.

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

I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment.

I haven't got a real job.

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.

The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.

As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen.

I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo!

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.

I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.

If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.