You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

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.