The First Instinct Is Love.

I Can't Imagine Being Quite As Lucky At Any Other Time - I Certainly Never Have Been Before. That Goes Right Down From My Producing Partners To People Like Eddie Vedder. But The Two Things That Make Me Feel That This Was Meant To Be Now And Not Before Was That The Story Itself Has More Resonance Today - I Find It A More Important Story Today Than It Was Then - And Emile.

You're Always Having To Live More To Fuel Something New. It's An Obligation To Yourself And To The Audience. The Personal Baggage That Comes With Being A Known Actor Just Adds To That Struggle.

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.

That Difference Do You Think You Can Make, One Man In All This Madness?

Well, It Was Interesting Because When I Was Going To Do It The First Time In My Head Was Leonardo Dicaprio [for Chris] And Marlon Brando Was Going To Play The Character That Hal Holbrook Eventually Played. But Then When It Wasn't To Be And There Was No Promise That It Ever Would Be I Think Some Part Of Me Didn't Want To Attach Specifics To It Anymore - Actors Or Anything Else - Because I Wanted To See It Made That Much More Badly.