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

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

Village Small Country New

We've all forgotten how to be original.

Be Original Forgotten How Original

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

Yourself Movies Filmmaking Film

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

Love People You Nothing

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

Help Rivalry Anybody

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

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

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 Lord

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

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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 Child

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 Faith Best Yourself

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 More Story Faithful

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

I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film.

Think Film Jaws I Think

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

Time Happy Drops Your

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.

Father Me Dad War

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.

Wolves Birds 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 Just

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.

Be Happy Happy Humanity Never

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

You Quality Young Find

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

You Think Powerful Duty

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.

Love Dad Mom Garden

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

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.

Friends Suffering Lost Relatives

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.

You Character Fat Skin

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