Hitchcock vs Jackson

I read this quote this morning:

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)

Can you hear me laughing out loud?

Now if only I had a quote from Peter Jackson.

And what about the play Nicholas Nickleby?

Lawrence of Arabia?

The wonderful thing about Videos and DVD's is that we can pause anything at any point. I adore Hitchcock films. I wonder though, was this something that cropped up in his later years?
(chuckles)