That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.

When I was little, I attended five different elementary schools. My parents are very restless people, which is probably where I get my own nomadic lifestyle from.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

I got called and was told, "We'd like you to do The Hobbit", which was my favorite of all of them when I was a kid - "And we want you to play a character that's not in the books", I gulped and hesitated, but then I went, "These guys know this world, and they represent this world so well, that I actually think they've earned the right to have a little play."

I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other aspects, when it comes to fanfare, Hawaii is nuts and in L.A. they're all so jaded. They don't care.