Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it."
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"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it."
Peter Jackson
"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."
Peter Jackson
"What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None."
Peter Jackson
"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."
Peter Jackson
"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."
Peter Jackson
"Once upon a time, sound was new technology."
Peter Jackson
"If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that."
Peter Jackson
"The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination."
Peter Jackson
"No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old."
Peter Jackson
"48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. I've got absolute belief and faith in 48 frames... it's something that could have ramifications for the entire industry. 'The Hobbit' really is the test of that."
Peter Jackson
"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."
Peter Jackson
"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?"
Peter Jackson
"There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now."
Peter Jackson
"What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies."
Peter Jackson
"I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported."
Peter Jackson
"The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself."
Peter Jackson
"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."
Peter Jackson
"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."
Peter Jackson
"I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking."
Peter Jackson
"Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough."
Peter Jackson
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