Quotes from Peter Jackson


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


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.


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


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.


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.


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.


Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.


It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.


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


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.


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


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?


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.


Rivalry doesn't help anybody.


I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.


Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.


We've all forgotten how to be original.


The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.


The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.


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