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New Zealander - Director Born: October 31, 1961 See also: Quotes about Peter Jackson

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

Yourself Movies Filmmaking Make

I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film.

Think Film I Think Jaws

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Me Never Always Filmmaking

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.

Yourself Time You Strong

We've all forgotten how to be original.

Be Original How Forgotten Original

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

Village Small Country New

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.

Work Best Faith Yourself

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'

Love You People Your

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.

Grateful Support Feel Movies

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

Help Anybody Rivalry

Top 10
Peter Jackson
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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?

Black-And-White Movies Silent Now

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

Time Happy Drops Your

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.

Believe Words Movies Try

There are perennial stories like 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Sherlock Holmes' and those sorts of things, which have been around since almost as long as film, and 'Frankenstein' is another one. They're perennial favorites, which get remade every 20 years, and that's OK.

Long Things Like Get

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

Black And White Children Black White

Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.

Birds Wolves Wild Animals

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.

Work Tired Diet Being

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

You Happy Smiling Never

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

Age Movies Living Where

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

Good You Your Start

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

Moment Doubt Career Get

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

You Think Powerful Like

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

Movies Like Pretentious Pompous

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

Budget Labor Majority Vast

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.

Time You Look Go

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.

Moment Story More Faithful

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