Peter Jackson

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

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

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 just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up.

To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films.

Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.

The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.

I'm thinking about doing a First World War film.

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

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.