Peter Jackson Quotes

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Peter Jackson

Profession : Director

Birth : October 31, 1961

'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.

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You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

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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.

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I'm thinking about doing a First World War film.

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Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

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

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I love collaborating with people.

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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.

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I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to.

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People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.

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The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands.

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I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

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To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

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I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out.

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You never make movies for Oscars.

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I'm not a regret guy.

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Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

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

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

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I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.

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