If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with but it's not on the page, it's not going to be on the screen. So that is the most difficult thing to do for a producer, is to get a script that attracts this kind of talent.

Well, I feel that we're kind of fortunate that this book gives the whole world a lesson in economics and how to get out of the mess that we're all in. It's basic message is to try and stop spending as much and try to release some of your assets to pay off your debt.

A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

I make movies based on gut.

But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.