New Zealander - Director | October 31, 1961 -
I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.
Peter Jackson
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It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.
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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.
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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.
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You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.
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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.
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When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.
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Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.
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Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in.
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If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
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To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.
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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.
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