Quotes by Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.

Eye

Light

Real

A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.

Beautiful

Pregnancy

Tree

Aragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop ’til nightfall. Pippin: But what about breakfast? Aragorn: You’ve already had it. Pippin: We’ve had one, yes. But what about second breakfast? [Aragorn stares at him, then walks off.] Merry: Don’t think he knows about second breakfast, Pip. Pippin: What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn’t he? Merry: I wouldn’t count on it Pip.

Gentleman

Tea

Thinking

Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional level to Frodo’s scenes and although he is a very instinctive actor, we discussed the character thoroughly.

Actors

Character

Emotional

Everybody’s life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Bigs

Moments

Obvious

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.

Scripts

Team

Writing

Film is such a powerful medium. It’s like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Powerful

Self

Thinking

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Achieve

Actors

Movie

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

Childhood

Knows

Want

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

Attitude

Ends

Needles

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Achieve

Actors

Airports

Artist

Attitude

Beautiful

Believe

Bigs

Book

Cameras

Character

Childhood

Chinese

Country

Determination

Directors

Discovering Things

Dragons

Emotional

Ends

Entertainers

Evil

Eye

Fans

Father

Film

Filters

Finals

Forever

Found

Gentleman

Giving Up

Heart

Imagination

Important

Interesting

Islands

Kids

Kings

Knowing

Knows

Light

Lord

Mean

Mistake

Moments

Movie

Needles

Obvious

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Quotes by Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.

A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.

Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional level to Frodo’s scenes and although he is a very instinctive actor, we discussed the character thoroughly.

Everybody’s life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.

Film is such a powerful medium. It’s like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

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

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

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