Top 100 Quotes About Peter Jackson
#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.
Peter Jackson
#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.
Peter Jackson
#3. We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.
Peter Jackson
#4. If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.
Ian McKellen
#5. 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.
Peter Jackson
#6. 'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.
Peter Jackson
#7. 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.
Peter Jackson
#8. 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.
Peter Jackson
#9. 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.
Peter Jackson
#10. As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'
Peter Jackson
#11. 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 .
Peter Jackson
#12. While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.
Peter Jackson
#13. 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.
Peter Jackson
#14. Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.
Luke Evans
#15. What is the truth is that every one of my films is a film that I'd love to go see, and I think that's very important because I always think it's a mistake to make movies for other people, or to make them for a demographic, or try to second guess an audience.
Peter Jackson
#16. I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.
Peter Jackson
#17. Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.
Peter Jackson
#18. 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.
Peter Jackson
#19. NEVERLAND:The imaginary island home of Peter Pan and the lost boys. A place where you never grow up. Michael Jackson's former retreat. An accurate description of the 21st century.
Daniel Prokop
#20. It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.
Peter Jackson
#21. 48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. I've got absolute belief and faith in 48 frames ... it's something that could have ramifications for the entire industry. 'The Hobbit' really is the test of that.
Peter Jackson
#22. I saw 'Tintin' in Europe - it is 'Indiana Jones' on steroids. Unbelievable. What a fantastic movie. Steven Spielberg, you rock the house. And working with those young English guys like Edgar Wright, and also Peter Jackson; what a great combination.
Harvey Weinstein
#23. There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.
Peter Jackson
#24. Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.
Evangeline Lilly
#25. 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.
Peter Jackson
#26. I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.
Peter Jackson
#28. 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.
Peter Jackson
#29. Directed By: Peter Jackson Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
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#30. 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.
Peter Jackson
#31. I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.
Peter Jackson
#32. The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.
Peter Jackson
#33. To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.
Peter Jackson
#34. If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
Peter Jackson
#35. And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my head with my sweaty hands, whimpering for my Mommy to make it stop. MAKE IT STOP!
But it did not stop. It. Did. Not. Stop.
The Desolation of Tolkien
John C. Wright
#36. Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.
Peter Jackson
#37. Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in.
Peter Jackson
#38. The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than just finishing off the story, it's like a whole new adventure all of its own. I'm very excited about it.
Richard C. Armitage
#40. I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
Rachel Caine
#41. I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.
Peter Jackson
#42. Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.
Peter Jackson
#43. A first edition of Peter Pan appeared gift-wrapped on my bed - Lucy admitted that Asher had drafted her to help deliver that present.
Corrine Jackson
#45. Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
Peter Jackson
#47. I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.
Michael Jackson
#48. To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.
Peter Jackson
#49. His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the '80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.
Lou Lumenick
#50. The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.
Peter Jackson
#51. 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.
Peter Jackson
#52. When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive.
Peter Jackson
#53. 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.
Peter Jackson
#54. I'm not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don't do a Marvel film, I don't have any other choice - I've got to go make a small New Zealand movie!
Peter Jackson
#57. I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.
Peter Jackson
#58. Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional level to Frodo's scenes and although he is a very instinctive actor, we discussed the character thoroughly.
Peter Jackson
#59. I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up.
Peter Jackson
#60. What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.
Peter Jackson
#61. You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.
Peter Jackson
#62. 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.
Peter Jackson
#63. Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
Christopher Lee
#64. I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to.
Peter Jackson
#65. 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.
Peter Jackson
#66. 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?
Peter Jackson
#68. You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
Adam Brown
#69. 'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.
Peter Jackson
#70. I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.
Peter Jackson
#71. I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.
Peter Jackson
#72. There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.
Peter Jackson
#73. For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.
Peter Jackson
#74. 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.
Peter Jackson
#75. 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.
Peter Jackson
#76. Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.
Peter Jackson
#77. When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.
Aidan Turner
#78. To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because I think you have to have a sense of believing the world that you're going into.
Peter Jackson
#79. 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.
Peter Jackson
#80. Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
Peter Jackson
#81. I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.
Andy Serkis
#82. Scorsese, Spielberg, Tarantino, Peter Jackson - all of you: I'm here, I'm ready. I can do funny faces, I can sing, I can dance. Hire me!
Cara Delevingne
#83. Personally," Mr. D continued, "I couldn't care less, but congratulations. Also, I should tell you that we have a new camper today. Peter Johnson." Chiron murmured something. "Er, Percy Jackson," Mr. D corrected. "That's right. Hurrah, and all that. Now run along to your silly campfire. Go on.
Rick Riordan
#84. 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.
Peter Jackson
#85. I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo!
Peter Jackson
#86. 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.
Peter Jackson
#87. Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.
John Rhys-Davies
#88. '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.
Peter Jackson
#89. 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.
Peter Jackson
#90. 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.
Peter Jackson
#91. New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
Peter Jackson
#92. 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.
Peter Jackson
#93. 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.
Peter Jackson
#94. Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'
Christopher Lee
#95. 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.
Peter Jackson
#96. People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI as if it's responsible for a drop in standards.
Peter Jackson
#97. 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.
Peter Jackson
#98. I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.
Daniel Radcliffe
#99. It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.
Peter Jackson
#100. 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.
Peter Jackson
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