Peter Jackson : (7)

" I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’ magazine. " - Peter Jackson

" Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It’s more about that same story being filtered through somebody else’s sensibility. " - Peter Jackson

" Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character. " - Peter Jackson

" The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you’re going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands. " - Peter Jackson

" In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there’s a story going on, and you never get to hear… You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities. " - Peter Jackson

" For a lot of my childhood, I didn’t want to direct movies because I didn’t really know what directing was. " - Peter Jackson

" The producers of ‘The Hobbit’ take the welfare of all animals very seriously and have always pursued the highest standard of care for animals in their charge. " - Peter Jackson