I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work.

— Peter Jackson

I know. It's all wrong. By rights, we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

— Peter Jackson

It comes in pints?

— Peter Jackson

I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.

— Peter Jackson

I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that we've played with.

— Peter Jackson

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Film land' magazine.

— Peter Jackson

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

— Peter Jackson

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

— Peter Jackson

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to immigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

— Peter Jackson

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.

— Peter Jackson