Quotes from Peter Jackson

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.

Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.

People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI as if it's responsible for a drop in standards.

The producers of 'The Hobbit' take the welfare of all animals very seriously and have always pursued the highest standard of care for animals in their charge.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

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

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

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made.

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.

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.

We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies.

Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating.

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.

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

48 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.

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?