Explore Quotes by Peter Jackson

I don't quite know what an auteur is.

It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.

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.

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to.

When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive.

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.

I'm not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don't do a Marvel film, I don't have any other choice - I've got to go make a small New Zealand movie!

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

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.

Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.

The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late '60s, the film rights.

I haven't got a real job.

Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.

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.

I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.

Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.

I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place.

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.

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.