As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt.

When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.

Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.