Peter Jackson Quotes

I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.

I've gone places where they've told me what I need to do, what I need to say, who I need to be, what moves I need to perform. And at Impact I get to just be me. I have creative control to be me and do what I want.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

It is easier to make a film but difficult to make it on your own terms. In that sense 'Madras Cafe' was a very satisfying experience.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.