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The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.
— Peter Jackson
Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end.
— 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
While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.
— Peter Jackson
The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.
— Peter Jackson
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
— Peter Jackson
He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.
— Peter Jackson
As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.'
— Richard C. Armitage
I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.
— Peter Jackson
Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.
— Peter Jackson
I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.
— Peter Jackson
Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating.
— Peter Jackson
It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.
— Peter Jackson
'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.
— Peter Jackson
I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.
— Peter Jackson
I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope ...
— Peter Jackson
I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo!
— Peter Jackson
The one thing with 3D presentations is I think that 3D itself, whether it's 24 or 48, is at a very interesting point in time.
— Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.
— Evangeline Lilly
Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.
— Christopher Lee
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.
— Peter Jackson
Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
— Peter Jackson
We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.
— Peter Jackson
I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.
— Peter Jackson
What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.
— Peter Jackson
Scorsese, Spielberg, Tarantino, Peter Jackson - all of you: I'm here, I'm ready. I can do funny faces, I can sing, I can dance. Hire me!
— Cara Delevingne
I don't quite know what an auteur is.
— Peter Jackson
I love collaborating with people.
— Peter Jackson
I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.
— Peter Jackson
Defeat is always momentary.
— Peter Jackson
Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.
— Peter Jackson
There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.'
— Peter Jackson
Once upon a time, sound was new technology.
— Peter Jackson
You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.
— Peter Jackson
I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.
— Richard C. Armitage
I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing.
— Peter Jackson
You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
— Adam Brown
'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.
— Peter Jackson
Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.
— Peter Jackson
I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.
— Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
— Christopher Lee
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.
— Peter Jackson
If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.
— Ian McKellen
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.
— Peter Jackson
As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.
— Peter Jackson
If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.
— Peter Jackson
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.
— Peter Jackson
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.
— Peter Jackson
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.
— Peter Jackson
I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place.
— Peter Jackson
Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.
— Peter Jackson
If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before.
— Peter Jackson
I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.
— Daniel Radcliffe
I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment.
— Peter Jackson
I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.
— Peter Jackson
I'm always Peter Pan in my heart
— Michael Jackson
I'm not a regret guy.
— Peter Jackson
Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.'
— Peter Jackson
I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.
— Peter Jackson
I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting.
— Peter Jackson
Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'
— Christopher Lee
I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.
— Peter Jackson
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.
— Peter Jackson
The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.
— 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
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
If you work at love, you will find love at work.
— Peter Jackson
Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.
— Peter Jackson
'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.
— Peter Jackson
What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.
— Peter Jackson
I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.
— 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
I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.
— Peter Jackson
I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.
— Peter Jackson
Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes.
— Peter Jackson
A first edition of Peter Pan appeared gift-wrapped on my bed - Lucy admitted that Asher had drafted her to help deliver that present.
— Corrine Jackson
Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
— Ian McKellen
Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.
— Peter Jackson
I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
— Peter Jackson
As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.
— Peter Jackson
I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.
— Peter Jackson
When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.
— Aidan Turner
The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.
— Peter Jackson