Peter Jackson Quotes

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Peter Jackson

Profession : Director

Birth : October 31, 1961

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

Peter Jackson

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

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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.

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

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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.

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The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material.

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Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

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I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.

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

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In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

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

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We've all forgotten how to be original.

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

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There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.'

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The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.

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Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

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I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

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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.

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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.

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The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before Tolkien sold the rights. They approached him, and he said, 'No.'

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