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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.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson World Rest Kind

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

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Justice Fairness You

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Sense Of Humor Think You

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Money Me People

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.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Hands You Idea

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

Peter Jackson Filmmaking Process You

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.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Movies Monsters Back

'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.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson People Idea New

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Movies 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.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson School Enjoy Filmmaking

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

Peter Jackson Story Think Little

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

Peter Jackson Work Tired Seems

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

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Yourself Filmmaking Honest

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Want Audience Always

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Like Pretentious Pompous

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

Peter Jackson Children Black And White

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

Peter Jackson Black And White Silent

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

Peter Jackson Work Best Work Hard

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

Peter Jackson Belief You Test

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.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Today King Movies

'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

Peter Jackson World Small Mythology

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

Peter Jackson Future Decision People

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Time New Sound

I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Love Television Garden

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

Peter Jackson Rain Sun Trees

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Think Interest I Think

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

~ Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson Father War World
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