Quotes About Adventure

It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.

I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.

I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.

My first paid job was leading pony rides along Minehead seafront when I was eight. I probably got paid sixpence - not much but I loved horses and it gave me a great chance to be near them.

At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it.

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.

As a teen-ager I played cards, shot craps, played pool, went to the track, hung around social clubs. I knew that some card and crap games were run by the mob, and some social clubs were mob social clubs. Even as a kid I knew guys that were here today, gone tomorrow, never seen again, and I knew what had happened.

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

What's missing from pop music is danger.

It's not beyond me to take my kids to see a good popcorn movie that's a roller coaster ride.

The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

With 'The A-Team,' it was like, 'Alright, I'm going to do a big popcorn movie and see how that feels.'

I love big popcorn movies.

When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

I really want to drive a Porsche GT1 car - also a McLaren, if I could fit. I want to do LeMans badly. I want to do Spa, a European series with World SportsCars.

My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

I would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it's not in Australia, but it's not too far.

We're really lucky because we have a portable studio, which enables us to work wherever we like. There is some extra work involved in setting everything up, but you can find a lot of magic and inspiration in being free to go somewhere completely different.

I love Portland. I think it's one of the best cities - I obviously haven't been to very many places, but I had one of the best times I've had on a set there.