Peter Jackson Quotes

I'm always involved with casting my movies. I have final word on it.

We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

I like to make movies I like to watch.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

I strive to make movies I would enjoy.

I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.

I think - in general, I don't think I've been involved in a single movie that turned out the way I anticipated it to turn out. Just because, as an actor, there's only so much that I can bring to a project.

The great thing about an anthology is that each year is its own 10-hour movie, and the only requirement is that it's the best 10-hour movie that I can make out of the story.

I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'

If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make.