Peter Jackson Quotes

I think, as a director, it's always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story.

I am definitely going to continue directing, but I am always going to try to explore new ways of making films. It really is possible to make films in different ways.

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.

I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

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

Every film's different; every story is so different. But I think I've always been attracted to try to take something minimal and to maximize it cinematically. To find out if I can I really go all the way with one idea.

I'm a fool for a brilliant filmmaker. And for someone who wants to try new things.

Signature film-making seems rather dull to me; it's about finding something you can do something with and running with the ball.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don't work, they don't work. That's the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That's where I spend my money.

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.