Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson ONZ KNZMis a New Zealand filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of The Lord of the Rings trilogyand The Hobbit trilogy, both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other notable films include the critically lauded drama Heavenly Creatures, the mockumentary Forgotten Silver, the horror comedy The Frighteners, the epic monster remake film King Kongand the supernatural drama film The...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth31 October 1961
CityPukerua Bay, New Zealand
I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to.
I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to.
I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.
I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.
I don't quite know what an auteur is.
I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.
I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.
I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.
'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.
Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes.
For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.
Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.
Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.
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