Top 144 Quotes by Peter Jackson

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

If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.

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

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

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

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

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

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

There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.