Peter Jackson Quotes

• I read the book when I was 18 years old and thought ‘I can’t wait till the movie comes out’. Twenty years later no one had done it—so I got impatient.

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• Rivalry doesn’t help anybody.

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• I think that George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’ films are fantastic. What he’s done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

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• 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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• What I don’t like are pompous, pretentious movies.

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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.

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

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• New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

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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 mean, I didn’t have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

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• One of the first movies I ever saw was ‘Batman,’ based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

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

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

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• The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

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• The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.

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

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• 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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• I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

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Peter Jackson (21)

Birth:	31st October, 1961
Nationality:	New Zealander
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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