I'm Not Good At Talking To Strangers,

It's A Foreground Of My Feeling. That Place Moves Me. And I Don't Mean My Country; It's Part Of Our Shared Natural World That Happens To Be Particular To A Sense Of Wherever My Storytelling Inclinations Come From And My Own History Of Kind Of Being A Road Rat And Travelling.

In Short Form I'll Say It Was An Approach To The Family And To [author] Jon Krakauer That Then Led To Me Seeming To Rise To The Top Of The Heap Of Several Filmmakers That Were Trying To Get The Rights. And By Top Of The Heap I Mean In Terms Of Being Somebody That Was Trusted To Do It As They Said They Were Going To Attempt To Do It And That This Way Of Doing It Would Be Something They Would Be Willing To Allow.

There Is No Re-inventing The Wheel.

Well, The Kind Of Central Question: "do You Want To Live - And I Don't Mean Stay Alive - Do You Want To Feel Your Life While You're Living It?" You Know, There's Somewhere To Go That Was Here Before We Were And Is Going To Be Here After Us, So Get Out There In It. It Doesn't Take Somebody Who's Got Some Self-important Sense Of Their Own Attachment To Nature To Recognise That You're Just Stupid If You Don't Go Out There.

The Advice You Give To Young Directors For Sure Is To Go Out And Become Some Version Of A Successful Movie Actor. Do That First And Say Yes To People Like Terrence Malick And Clint Eastwood And Woody Allen When They Come And Offer You Movies. It's A Great Front Row Seat To Filmmaking.