I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders. – Peter Jackson
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
Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It’s so much more comfortable on the eyes. – Peter Jackson
Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don’t like them. – Peter Jackson
Film is such a powerful medium. It’s like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. – Peter Jackson
‘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
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. – Peter Jackson
