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Peter Jackson Quotes

People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she’s a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and ’40s.

– Peter Jackson

It’s almost like an optical illusion, ‘The Hobbit.’ You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.

– Peter Jackson

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.

– Peter Jackson

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

Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that’s infecting film.

– Peter Jackson

If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what’s come before.

– Peter Jackson

I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It’s just a Hitchcock thing.

– Peter Jackson

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

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

I’m always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.

– Peter Jackson

The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late ’60s, the film rights.

– Peter Jackson

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.

– Peter Jackson

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.

– Peter Jackson

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.

– Peter Jackson

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.

– Peter Jackson

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, ‘I love your movie.’

– Peter Jackson

There was a great magazine in the ’80s called ‘Cinemagic’ for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.

– Peter Jackson

It’s not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

– Peter Jackson

Buster Keaton’s ‘The General,’ from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

– Peter Jackson

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

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

– Peter Jackson

Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end.

– Peter Jackson

I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo!

– Peter Jackson

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.

– Peter Jackson

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.

– Peter Jackson

The cameo I did in ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.

– Peter Jackson

There is a lot of ‘Halo’ movie material no one has ever seen in New Zealand.

– Peter Jackson

In the case of ‘The Lovely Bones,’ I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare.

– Peter Jackson

I never dreamed in a million years that ‘The Lord of the Rings’ would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations.

– Peter Jackson

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

– Peter Jackson

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