Peter Jackson

“I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.”

“The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.”

“Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.”

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

“I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.”

“It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.”

“I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.”

“100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?”

“I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.”

“The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making.”

“I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.”

“When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.”

“I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.”

“In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare.”

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

“We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.”

“You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.”

“I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process.”

“Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.”

“To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.”