It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.