Latest Peter Jackson Quotes from Interviews

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• What I love about films is that you can see "King Kong" and you can be affected by it and then you realize that he was just this little guy when he made that fall.

  Peter Jackson

  Kings, Fall, Guy

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

• I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.

  Peter Jackson

  Thinking, Years, Littles

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

• What is the truth is that every one of my films is a film that I'd love to go see, and I think that's very important because I always think it's a mistake to make movies for other people, or to make them for a demographic, or try to second guess an audience.

  Peter Jackson

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

• I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.

  Peter Jackson

  Believe, Skulls, Islands

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

• People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing.

  Peter Jackson

  Heart, People, Evil

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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

  Peter Jackson

  Children, Black And White, Generations

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

• The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

  Peter Jackson

  Film, Mute, Critical

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

• I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.

  Peter Jackson

  Falling In Love, Kings, Boys

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

• There's something incredibly tragic about Kong. You feel almost feel ashamed to be a human being when you see what happens to him. I mean he is ultimately a pure-heart.

  Peter Jackson

  Heart, Mean, Ashamed

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

• There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.

  Peter Jackson

  Real, Stories, Use

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

  Peter Jackson

  Character, Needs, Scene

  "Peter Jackson Talks King Kong and Halo!". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. December 9, 2005.

• I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

  Peter Jackson

  Jobs, Creativity, Thinking

  "Peter Jackson Talks King Kong and Halo!". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. December 9, 2005.

• I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

  Peter Jackson

  Thinking, Filters, Finals

  "Peter Jackson Talks King Kong and Halo!". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. ecember 9, 2005.

• To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

  Peter Jackson

  People, Guy, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

  Peter Jackson

  Writing, Play, Two

  "Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions". Online chat, www.slashfilm.com. May 24, 2008.

• I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

  Peter Jackson

  Trying, Use, Adore

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.

  Peter Jackson

  Couple, Emotional, Coal

  "Peter Jackson & Guillermo Del Toro Talk The Hobbit!". Online Chat, movieweb.com. May 24, 2008.

• Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.

  Peter Jackson

  Important, Stories, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

  Peter Jackson

  School, Challenges, Done

  "Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions". Online chat, www.slashfilm.com. May 24, 2008.

• I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there.

  Peter Jackson

  Thinking, Museums, Breathing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope.

  Peter Jackson

  Dragons, Chinese, Fans

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.

  Peter Jackson

  Directors, Lord, Found

  "Peter Jackson & Guillermo Del Toro Talk The Hobbit!". Online chat, www.movieweb.com. May 24, 2008.

• Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.

  Peter Jackson

  Team, Writing, Scripts

  "Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions". Online chat, www.slashfilm.com. May 24, 2008.

• The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

  Peter Jackson

  Believe, Winning, Directors

  "Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions". Online chat, www.slashfilm.com. May 24, 2008.

• In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.

  Peter Jackson

  World, Rooms, Scripts

  "Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions". Live chat, www.slashfilm.com. May 24, 2008.