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" From the first time I read John Krakauer's book 'Into Thin Air' in the early 2000s, I always thought this great adventure story would make a really good film. It has all the ingredients - a great location, disaster, interesting characters, and all forms of human emotion. "

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" The producer needs to be a fool - a determined fool! You have to be incredibly tenacious because there are a lot of 'nos' out there; the whole thing is a bit like herding cats. You have to keep at it and keep at it, and one day you get there, to the movie. "

" Premium, non-network television is occupying a space that art cinema used to enjoy. 'Homeland,' 'Breaking Bad' - 15 to 20 years ago, they would have been independent cinema stories. "

" Really bad reviews can hurt pretty much any movie. They say that some films are review-proof, but I think that's probably big high-concept movies, comedies, and so on. But, on the whole, if a film gets dreadful reviews, it will affect its business. "

" I believe you make a movie three times: once in the development process - putting the ingredients like the script, cast and crew together - once in the shooting process, and once in the editing process. "

" All too often on film sets, what happens is everybody gets worried about an actor being sick, a car not turning up, or the weather not being right rather than what we're ending up with onscreen. "

" The frustration of a movie is that you are creating a new business every time you go off to make one, and in a funny way, that's what's exciting. "

" I'm never going to go and test myself on Everest, but I sort of understand the psychology of people who might want to. "