Peter Jackson
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Biography
Sir Peter Robert Jackson is a New Zealand filmmaker, entrepreneur and visual effects pioneer. He is best known as the director, screen-writer, and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J.
"I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor."
"Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with"
"I don't take stuff seriously. I saw 'Hellraiser 3' the other day at Cannes; it's OK, it's a good film, I didn't hate it or anything. I thought it was quite good, but it was all just so serious. Some guy walking round with pins sticking out of his face. I just can't sit there and think ,'this is really scary.' If I made a 'Hellraiser' film, I'd like Pinhead to be whacked against a wall and have all the pins flattened into his face."
"And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I don't think I've got to a point where I've achieved anything that feels like, a particular milestone, but there's still a lot more to learn and hopefully a lot more films to make."
"Kong bites his head off in a PG13 kinda way"
"I'm a Derek and Dereks don't run"
"Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever."
"I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist."
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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."
"What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies."
"If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness."
"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."
"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 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."
"The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself."
"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?"
"'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."
"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."
"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."