Matthew Reilly : (2) " I wasn’t one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like ‘Die Hard,’ ‘Predator,’ ‘Aliens,’ ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’ " - Matthew Reilly " I read ‘The Hobbit’ only when I was an adult. I had a lot of friends, teenagers, who discovered reading through ‘The Hobbit,’ but it wasn’t something that I discovered until later in life. " - Matthew Reilly