Quotes

My guess is the sun warmed me up just enough that it triggered consciousness. [...] That was going to be the day of my daughter's first date. The things some fathers will do to keep their daughter from going out with some grubby-mitted boy.

I gave up flying earlier this year [2015] at Peach's seriously strong encouragement.

I've always been a storyteller. Peach says I could talk the ears off a rubber rabbit. But I didn't really have a story. And then I did.

I've seen it ["Everest"] three times, and each time it basically runs me over. Emotionally it takes me apart.

I'd never seen a Hollywood movie about climbing that I thought was worth a hoot. It always looked to me like a bunch of actors on a ski slope screaming at each other.

I never dream about Everest in a bad way. I loved being there. If I knew exactly what was going to happen - every bit of the struggle and heartbreak - I would do it again in a heartbeat. I gave up a couple of parts. But what I got back was my marriage, my relationship with my kids and a forced reevaluation of how I wanted to live the rest of my life. I got so much more out of it than I gave up.

Especially in the first part of the film ["Everest"], my character is a bit of a jerk. I know it would be almost impossible for a Hollywood screenwriter faced with a conservative Texan to not engage in a little bit of enjoyment in creating that character. But if I start off as a bit of a jerk, I just have remember that I'm devilishly handsome and I'm married to Robin Wright, so I can stand a little bit of criticism.