Peter Jackson Quotes

The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them, but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.

I honestly think I could sit down and write a show tonight that the critics would love, and I know it would be canceled within four weeks. I know what the critics love. We write and produce for people, not for critics.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

You can't please everybody. As long as you make dope music, you're gonna have your fans.

My films are as much for the people as they are for me. The reception affects me, but doesn't change me as a person. That's important.

I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.

As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

'Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.