Peter Jackson Quotes

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

I'm still learning my craft.

Hits and flops will come and go. But what stays with you is the experience you had while shooting a film. I am happy learning something new each time.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

I have to keep making films, getting better in my craft, and the way to do that is to work with people who know what they're doing and who can help me.

After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.

I always think that you finish one movie, you start a new one, and you think, 'OK. I did that last one. Now I've learned. I know how this works.' Then by the end of the movie, you think, 'No, I don't, really.'

Producing is just a big learning experience.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

You have a soft spot in your heart for each movie, and you're doing certain things. You're learning as you're going, as a director, and each movie is its own entity.

I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

You learn something new on every film.

When you make movies, it's such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you.