The One Thing You Can Count On

It's A Foreground Of My Feeling. That Place Moves Me. And I Don't Mean My Country; It's Part Of Our Shared Natural World That Happens To Be Particular To A Sense Of Wherever My Storytelling Inclinations Come From And My Own History Of Kind Of Being A Road Rat And Travelling.

I Still Think Photographers Should Be Lashed Out At. They Should Be Put In A Cage Where You Can Poke Them With A Stick For A Quarter. But Not In A Hostile Way, Just For Giggles. They Really Are On The Attack Against Mankind; It's A Disease. They Should Be Helped Somewhere. But I'd Still Like To Poke Them With A Stick.

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.

There's Not A Lot Of Good Movies Being Made.

I've Been A Road-rat Since I Got My Driver's Licence At 16, So I've Probably Gone Across America 20 Times.