Zitat des Tages von Peter Jackson:
I love collaborating with people.
You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.
Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.
Rivalry doesn't help anybody.
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.
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.'
I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.
The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.
I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.
The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.
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.
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?
I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.
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.
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.
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.
To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films.
The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.
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.
Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.
I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out.
Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.
I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.
I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to.
Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.
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.
I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.
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.
One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.
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.
To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.
Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.