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.

The effects that interest me are not the guy flying through the sky, but creating reality - reality that you otherwise can't go and shoot.

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.

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

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

I know I get a lot of grief about some of the things I've said about Coach Saban, but working under him was like going back to school and getting another degree.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.