01UndatedI know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.Peter Jackson / quote ↗
02UndatedAragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop 'til nightfall.Pippin: But what about breakfast?Aragorn: You've already had it.Pippin: We've had one, yes. But what about second breakfast?[Aragorn stares at him, then walks off.]Merry: Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.Pippin: What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?Merry: I wouldn't count on it Pip.Peter Jackson / quote ↗
04UndatedThere'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 / quote ↗
05UndatedIf justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.Peter Jackson / quote ↗
06UndatedI don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.Peter Jackson / quote ↗
07UndatedFor me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.Peter Jackson / quote ↗
08UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedIf you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.Peter Jackson / quote ↗
10UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
11Undated'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 / quote ↗
13UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
14UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
15UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
17UndatedI've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.Peter Jackson / quote ↗
19UndatedThere's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.Peter Jackson / quote ↗
20Undated100 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 / quote ↗
21UndatedOne 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 / quote ↗
22Undated48 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 / quote ↗
23UndatedNo 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 / quote ↗
24Undated'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 / quote ↗
