Peter Jackson Quotes

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know that it's going to be amazing!

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

Consistency is very important when you're making films.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

You can make amazing sci-fi films if you want to with very, very little money and very advanced technology that can run on your desktop.

With the advanced editing technologies, it's not difficult to play double roles these days. It can be done easily.

With the kind of money Bollywood directors have, they can at least add drama, gloss and glamour to their films, even if the stories are uninspiring and run-of-the-mill.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

It's been a dream to work alongside the talented team at Lucasfilm and ILM to make advancements and improvements to the filmmaking process to help tell stories more efficiently.

I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that.

Technology is a very important part of cinema.

The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to comprehend that there's a performance there. They look at it as something that's just been made by a computer but in a way the difference is that when you make a normal film - and I'm simplifying it here - you put on the make-up and you put the scenery in before you start shooting, but with this you still perform in the same way but then you put the make-up on after, along with the costumes and scenery.

I must admit, strong films are more interesting to me, as, by the end of the day's shooting, you feel good.

Any of us directing at Pixar, whether it's our first time or not, feel a lot of pressure to not make a bad Pixar film.

I mean, I certainly wouldn't want to paint myself as, you know, the evangelist for practical effects or some sort of anti CG guy because it's really a tool. Like filmmaking is this toolbox and you use what's appropriate in relation to the story.

With good content, a solid director can make a film without a superstar.

The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.