Peter Jackson Net Worth

Peter Jackson's Quotes

• New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
• What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.
• On Meet the Feebles (1989): I have a moronic sense of humour.
• On horror: I don't take stuff seriously. I saw Hellraiser III the other day at Cannes; it's okay, it's a good film, I didn't hate it or anything. I thought it was quite good, but it was all just so serious. Some guy walking round with pins sticking out of his face. I just can't sit there and think, "This is really scary." If I made a Hellraiser film, I'd like Pinhead to be whacked against a wall and have all the pins flattened into his face. I immediately start thinking of funny things and gags - that's just the way I am. I doubt I could ever control myself sufficiently to make a serious horror film.
• [on "The Lord of the Rings"]: This is a giant undertaking, but I consider this a personal film. It's my film of a lifetime. I read the book when I was 18 years old and thought then, "I can't wait till the movie comes out." Twenty years later, no one had done it - so I got impatient.

Interesting Facts about Peter Jackson

1. Owns two houses in Wellington, New Zealand.
2. Made the latex models for Bad Taste (1987) in his mom's kitchen oven, often forcing the family to have sausages for dinner because they couldn't use the oven.
3. Owner of production companies WingNut Films, Weta Limited and Three Foot Six.
4. Father of Billy Jackson and Katie Jackson.
5. Collects models of airplanes from World War One.
6. During filming of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), he used the same pair of shoes and only two T-shirts.
7. He likes 1960s music his favorites are The Beatles (he paid homage to them in Bad Taste (1987)).
8. After his parents, Bill and Joan, died, Jackson inherited the modest Pukerua Bay house where he grew up.
9. The stuff in the bowl, in his first movie Bad Taste (1987), was yoghurt, muesli and green food colouring.
10. In 1998, he bought the New Zealand based film company National Film Unit.
11. Credits his favorite movie King Kong (1933) as his biggest inspiration in filmmaking. He said that he cried when King Kong fell off the Empire State Building.
12. The movie that gave him the love for splatter is George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978). After seeing it, he felt a bit sick but amazed too.
13. (November 26, 2001) Together with his partner Fran Walsh, he received the honorary graduation from Massey University.
14. He and Fran Walsh, were both awarded Companion of the Order of New Zealand Merit on March 5, 2002 for their services to the film industry.
15. He left school at age 17 and started working on a Wellington newspaper.
16. For his first movie, Bad Taste (1987), he did all the special effects, the make-up effects and built exact replicas of the weapons.
17. He allegedly offered $150,000 to Aint-it-cool webmaster Harry Jay Knowles for his King Kong (1933) original poster.
18. Started writing a remake of King Kong (1933) in 1996, which went through several drafts, until in 2003 he made one that was greenlighted by Universal.
19. Ranked #20 in Premiere magazine's 2003 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #41 in 2002.
20. Voted "Man of the Year 2002" in the Australian Empire Magazine. [March 2003]