Quotes from Peter Jackson

I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment.

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

Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.

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.

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

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

Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes.

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making.

Being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the names of some of my childhood heroes is slightly surreal and incredibly awesome.

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.

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.

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.

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

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.

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.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

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

I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.

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.

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

I love collaborating with people.

When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.