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've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
I'm thinking about doing a First World War film.
I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.
I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting.
I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.
I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations.
I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing.
I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo!
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.