Peter Jackson Quotes

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

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

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

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

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

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

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

What I love about films is that you can see "King Kong" and you can be affected by it and then you realize that he was just this little guy when he made that fall.

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.

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.

When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

Defeat is always momentary.

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.

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.

I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

I just got to the point where I literally didn't want anyone else to do it.

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

I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

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

I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in a row, there will be a consistency of tone.

Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.

Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.

I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there.

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.

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.

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

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

I don't believe in the concept that 3D should be shot separately. I mean, every director has their own style, sure, but I don't think any of that is really an issue with 3D.