Peter Jackson Quotes

The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.

The more tools we have directors and cinematographers will be able to express more and create different worlds and feelings. It's like having more instruments in an orchestra.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.

The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds.

I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.

My primary passion is film-making. That's the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else - from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show - is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.

No director can ever deliver what's on his or her mind totally, but 'Baahubali-2' is the closest I can get in executing what I had envisaged onto the celluloid.