Quotes by Peter Jackson

I know. Its all wrong. By rights we shouldnt even be here. But we are. Its like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didnt want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, its only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didnt. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Theres a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the worlds infrastructure.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

I dont think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they dont like.

The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and youre going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands.

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

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine.

Heavenly Creatures was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

I think everything that you do, youre learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; thats one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.

I think were going to enter a phase where theres less interest in the CGI and theres a demand for story again. I think weve dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that weve played with.

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.

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

Ive always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

What I dont like are pompous, pretentious movies.

Theres a generation of children who dont like black and white movies. Theres a level of impatience or intolerance now.

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?

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.

48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. Ive got absolute belief and faith in 48 frames... its something that could have ramifications for the entire industry. The Hobbit really is the test of that.