For People Who Have... Had Curve Balls

I Like To Just Keep The Land Within Sight. Nowadays They Can Tell You If There's A Storm Three Days Out. So It's Not Much Of A Concern. But I've Never Been A Big Boat Person. I Don't Spend A Lot Of Time At Sea.

I Have Friends Who Remember Seeing Fish Hauled Onto A Boat's Deck And Beaten To Death.

When You're The Guy Behind The Camera, You're Aware Of The Reasons For The Compromises Or The Changes That Get Made. As An Actor, You Go And Do Your Thing, And Someone Else Down The Line Then Does All The Math And Goes, "we Can't Include That Thing Where He's Pretending To Be Dumb And Needling Those People, Because It Takes A Minute And A Half, And It Ruins The Next Scene. It Doesn't Make Sense." If You're Directing, You're The One Doing That.

A Movie's Very Different From The Book, And It's Different From The Script, And It's Usually One Person's Vision.

Great Books Don't Make Great Movies. There's Too Much Information In There.