Quotes from Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.

It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

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.

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.

I'm not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don't do a Marvel film, I don't have any other choice - I've got to go make a small New Zealand movie!

'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into.

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.

I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

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.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

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

I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.

To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films.

I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

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.

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.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.