"I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today." -- Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson is a journalist and the correspondent in charge of the Associated Press bureau in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He worked in the AP bureauu in Augusta, Maine, from 1978 to 1996, serving most of that period as the correspondent.
In 2005, he was named one of "Pennsylvania's Most Influential Reporters" by the Pennsylvania political news website PoliticsPA. In 2006, Jackson edited a series of stories written by Mark Scolforo on Pennsylvania's state pension system that generated significant local interest.
"New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.""To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience."