If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.
People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.
I think of 'The Hobbit' as more like a boy's own film, like those annuals from the 1930s and 1940s.
There are some people who cannot watch every film because of age. They might watch only three films in a year.
I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.
I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
'The Hobbit's a big gig. It's a huge circus that you become a part of.
Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.