Top 100 Peter Jackson Quotes
#1. A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.
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#2. When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script.
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#3. We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.
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#4. Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it.
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#5. Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.
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#8. While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.
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#9. I don't like putting glasses on and watching 3D. I don't mind wearing glasses, but it's the dimness of the light and the fact that you're filtering the light. Whatever 3D process is being used is a filtration of light, which means it's blocking some of the light.
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#10. 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.
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#11. When you're casting a movie and when you're shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really. Any great actor literally knows exactly how to use their eyes, and even as a filmmaker I love shooting huge close-ups because it's those eyes that mean so much to me.
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#12. In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously ... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.
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#13. 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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#15. Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.
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#17. If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.
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#18. The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making.
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#21. I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.
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#22. What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.
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#23. 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.
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#24. I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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?
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#28. What I love about films is that you can see "King Kong" and you can be affected by it and then you realize that he was just this little guy when he made that fall.
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#29. Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.
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#30. Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.
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#31. When I worked as a newspaper photo engraver in the only job I ever had, many years ago, I'd get the train home to Pukerua Bay where I was staying with my parents. An hour ride, 16 stops, and almost always, I'd have automatic wake-up, seconds before we pulled into my station.
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#32. I think 3D at 24 frames is interesting, but it's the 48 that actually allows 3D to achieve the potential that it can achieve, because it's less eye strain and you have a sharper picture which creates more of a 3-dimensional world.
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#33. 'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into.
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#34. Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.
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#35. To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.
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#36. 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.
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#37. The producers of 'The Hobbit' take the welfare of all animals very seriously and have always pursued the highest standard of care for animals in their charge.
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#38. 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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#39. 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.
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#40. Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.
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#41. I don't believe in the concept that 3D should be shot separately. I mean, every director has their own style, sure, but I don't think any of that is really an issue with 3D.
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#42. As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.
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#44. So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.
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#45. Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.'
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#46. Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.
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#47. I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.
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#48. It's interesting how the frame rate actually changes the perception of the 3D as well as making it more comfortable to watch.
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#49. I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.
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#50. 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.
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#51. 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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#52. I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly.
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#53. 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.
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#54. As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.
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#55. No matter how many great performances or exciting visuals we put together for the movie, we found that it was all somewhat two dimensional until we added the emotional heart of Howard Shore's music. Then, and only then, did the film come to life.
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#56. [While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.
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#57. Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.
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#58. 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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#59. I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.
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#60. Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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.
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#63. Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.
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#64. The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.
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#65. I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process.
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#66. Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#69. I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.
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#70. 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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#71. A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
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#72. It's all about his determination. You never, ever, give up once you start something, once you're on the trail of something you don't stop and that's what you have to go through when you're making a movie too. Once the train's rolling, you have to stick with it.
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#73. I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment.
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#74. I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
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#75. I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.
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#76. When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.
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#77. 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.
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#78. I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there.
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#79. When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.
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#80. We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.
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#82. If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.
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#83. I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope ...
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#84. If you work at love, you will find love at work.
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#85. 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.
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#86. To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.
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#87. 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.
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#88. I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.
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#89. Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end.
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#90. The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.
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#91. The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
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#92. 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?
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#93. Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes.
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#94. Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.
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#95. You shouldn't think of these movies as being 'The Lord of the Rings.' The Lord of the Rings is, and always will be, a wonderful book - one of the greatest ever written. Any films will only ever be an INTERPRETATION of the book. In this case my interpretation.
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#96. Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.
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#97. There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.
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#98. 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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#99. I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting.
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#100. I think that's the job of a director really - to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.
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