Peter Jackson Quotes

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.

In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.

I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people loved, and suddenly CDs were threatening.

People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing.

It's interesting how the frame rate actually changes the perception of the 3D as well as making it more comfortable to watch.

Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both motion-capture and traditional animation to build a system.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

With the right movie, 3D can enhance the experience. Absolutely, it can make a good film a great film. It can make a great film a really amazing film to see .

There's something incredibly tragic about Kong. You feel almost feel ashamed to be a human being when you see what happens to him. I mean he is ultimately a pure-heart.

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.

New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.

It comes in pints?

There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.

'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.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

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.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

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

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?

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.

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.

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.

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.