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In Between, I Go Broke Because I Seem To Do Movies Where You're Not Paid A Lot As An Actor.

One Of The Things You Don't Have In Haiti Is You Don't Have Anybody On Crack Doing Something Completely Out Of - That's Unpredictable. Even At The Worst Times In Haiti, The Violence That Had Happened, The Lack Of Security That Happened, Was Largely Predictable Because It Was Politically Tied.

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'm Not Going To Recommend Recklessness But Somewhere Just Short Of It - Testing Yourself And Proactively Pursuing A Rite Of Passage Has Become Necessary Because In Western Developed Countries We've Become Very Comfort-addicted.

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.