“The answer to your question, Stephen, is yes.” - Peter Jackson

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces rather than artistic imperative doesn’t know the guy and hasn’t examined the body of his work.” He joked, “If we just had made one movie of The Hobbit, the fact is that all the fans, and I’m thinking of the eight, nine, ten-year-old boys and girls, they would watch it 1,000 times. Well, they’ve now got three films they can watch 1,000 times.
Sir Ian Mckellen (about The Hobbit being made into 3 movies)
‘I kept saying to myself: “This could make a great movie.” Of course, it never even occurred to me that I could make it!’ - Peter Jackson
‘I kept saying to myself: “This could make a great movie.” Of course, it never even occurred to me that I could make it!’ - Peter Jackson

notmydate:

Martin Freeman in The Blind Banker, the episode that convinced Peter Jackson to do whatever he had to so that Martin could play Bilbo.  Thank-you, PJ, thank-you.

John Rhys Davies visiting the dwarfs on set:

JRD: You’re  going to be spectacular. You’ll be chased by women all around the world.

Peter Jackson: But only if you’re in costume and make up!

Peter Jackson On His Hobbit Cameo

In Empire’s recent video interviews with the cast of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson revealed a couple of interesting titbits about his intentionally mysterious cameo in the film.

If you haven’t seen it already, it’s probably best if you don’t know – but if you have seen the first Hobbit movie already, here’s where he was hiding: in Erebor, dressed up as a dwarf, high-tailing it away from Smaug as the wicked wyrm blasted his particular brand of firey halitosis all upside The Lonely Mountain. 

But as most dwarves in the film are bearded, helmeted and armoured, it’s very difficult to make him out without knowing where he’ll be in advance.

The question is then why he chose that role – why did Peter “Carrot Chomper” Jackson hide himself away from the limelight this time around?

“I didn’t have a great deal of choice,” he explains. “There weren’t any human characters in this film, and there weren’t any hobbit roles I could play… and I’m not an elf.”

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jodvaz:

Peter Jackson on Comic Con Radio - SiriusXM (by SiriusXM Con)

Lovely interview… really informative with well thought out questions that we have all been thinking about… 

Talks about whether or not we’ll see Smaug in the first movie as well as other topics.