319 Quotes by Peter Jackson

Fantasy is an ‘F’ word that hopefully the five second delay won’t do anything with.

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

Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it’s something that I think was cool.

I find that in the process of making a film you’re constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

There’s a generation of children who don’t like black and white movies. There’s a level of impatience or intolerance.

When you’re directing, you’re right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional – and I’ll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.

When you’re casting a movie and when you’re shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really. Any great actor literally knows exactly how to use their eyes, and even as a filmmaker I love shooting huge close-ups because it’s those eyes that mean so much to me.

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.