Peter Jackson

Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end.

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.

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.'

I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo!

I love collaborating with people.

I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process.

I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to.

Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

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.

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'