We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. What we were trying to do was to analyze what was important to Tolkien and to try to honor that. In a way, we were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves.
Peter Jackson quote I think it's gonna be a lot of lawyers sitting in a room trying to thrash out a deal before it will ever happen [on the Hobbit]
Peter Jackson quote Biography
Director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy
