Peter Jackson Quotes

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

Denis Villeneuve is such a wonderful filmmaker. I just feel nothing but grateful to have worked with him and to have a chance to learn his language of filming.

Britain has nurtured me and made me able to make movies that have travelled round the world.

I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here.

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.

I like to just work with great directors.

Just remember: to be grateful and thank the people who are there and support you along the way is a great start to success.

I'm from the creative side of Hollywood. I'm up for anyone that wants to support my work. If you have eyeballs and give me a budget and are nice to me, I'm in.

I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.

I live in Australia, and I am Australian, and because I grew up in an era where we didn't have a film industry, and now we do, it's just really exciting for me to be able to say that I work in my own culture in a medium that I find fascinating.

I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family.

When I got to Paris, they welcomed me and showed my films. It was August of 1960, and I didn't have a penny in my pocket. But they had done something very dangerous: They had given me encouragement.

I've always said that, first and foremost, I make films for New Zealanders. They're my target audience. Then after that, if people appreciate my stories from outside this country, then that's an added bonus.

I will always be grateful to the coaches and staff of Cricket South Africa for their support through all these years.

I am so thankful to work with Shashank Khaitan because of the kind of person that he is. One of the things I am most thankful for is to have Shashank as my first director and as a mentor.

I can't wait for the rest of my career to meet these young writers and filmmakers so that I can produce and push a lot of their stories out there.

What I really appreciate is the people who come up and say, 'Thank you for representing our country.'

I am thankful to all those who gave me opportunities in the film industry.

It feels good to give back to the people who support you.

I would love to work with Guillermo del Toro and J.J. Abrams. I think they are creative geniuses that are constantly producing great work, and they're two people that I would just love to work with.