Peter Jackson Films Quotations

The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.

Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.

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.

We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. What we were trying to do was to analyze what was important to Tolkien and to try to honor that. In a way, we were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves.