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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the need for storytelling over visual effects in filmmaking.
Peter Jackson reflects on the shifting priorities in cinema, suggesting that while technological advancements like CGI have greatly enhanced visual storytelling, there is a growing desire for more compelling narratives. He implies that an overemphasis on special effects may have led to neglecting the foundational element of film: a well-crafted story.
In practice
In a film class, discussing the balance between special effects and story.
We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made.
I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.
Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.
As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen.
The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
I think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we're able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn's case, we as artists somehow made it 'cool' enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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