Peter Jackson Quotes

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

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing.

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

Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it.

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.

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

As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen.

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.