That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

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

I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.

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.

I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.