If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness. -Peter Jackson Hope
'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about. -Peter Jackson Famous
For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. -Peter Jackson Failure
My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli. -Peter Jackson Dad
I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things. -Peter Jackson Mom
There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure. -Peter Jackson Attitude
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. -Peter Jackson Imagination
I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things. -Peter Jackson Dad
I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking. -Peter Jackson Learning
If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. -Peter Jackson Computers
I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work. -Peter Jackson Diet
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now. -Peter Jackson Movies
If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. -Peter Jackson Politics
What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None. -Peter Jackson Dad
I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported. -Peter Jackson Movies
'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination. -Peter Jackson Imagination
One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible. -Peter Jackson Faith
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 Famous
Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in. -Peter Jackson Car
