I'd like to be a scout, go watch the games, and try and find a diamond in the rough.
I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
I... scout, I'm in all the film sessions, I'm in all the coaches meetings, I travel... I'm in on everything.
I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days.
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.
You can scout people as much as you want. At the end of the day, it's a fight, so you got to be ready for almost anything.
When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.
