Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in.

— Peter Jackson

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

— Peter Jackson

One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible.

— Peter Jackson

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.

— Peter Jackson

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small, but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

— Peter Jackson

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

— Peter Jackson

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.

— Peter Jackson

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.

— Peter Jackson

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

— Peter Jackson

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.

— Peter Jackson