I like having to figure out how to pull things off, how to sell it, how to make it look real, but not just real, make it look better.
I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.
Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me.
Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.
I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time.
I believe in fate, that films happen when they are supposed to.
I like being surrounded by great people.
I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged.
If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.
What I find really difficult is making career decisions.
I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.
Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy.
I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.
I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.
Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray's portrait of the photographer Lee Miller.
I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.
Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch.
You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.
I feel I have lived my whole life, day to day, without planning anything and I like it that way. Things change so fast, one minute you are here, the next minute you are on a plane, it's great fun.
I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary that will also be educational, an eco preserve and a school, perhaps in Costa Rica, that is one of my dreams and goals.
I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.
I was exposed to nature by my mother who loved camping, so I always enjoyed the outdoors and that has been a lasting passion. We went on nature walks and I became fascinated with the environment as I got older.
I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.
I like to make big decisions when I am at home living a routine life, getting up, walking my dog, having breakfast, when I have no pressure. I do not like doing it when I making a film. It is too stressful.
Clint Eastwood is so fair and consistent. It does not matter who he is talking to, he is always nice. It doesn't matter whether he is with a production assistant or Steven Spielberg, he is friendly and never seems superior. I think it is hard for people to realize that he is accessible because they are caught up in the image and can't talk to him because he is 'Clint Eastwood', so they get tongue-tied. They get terrified. It is funny watching people with him.
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