I'd Get Very Nervous And Uncomfortable In

There May Be Something In The Fact That When I Was A Little Kid I'd Been Told Growing Up That We Had Some Degree Of Native American Blood In Us, I Always Found That A Point Of Pride. So, When It Came To Cowboys And Indians I Most Certainly Did Not Want To Be John Wayne. I Wanted To Be One Of The Indians.

I Really Approached The Film As If It Was A White Big Piece Of Paper And I Was Going To Draw A Picture On It. And Whether That Picture Was Good Or Bad, Whatever People Thought Of It, What They Could Never Take Away Was That It Was My Picture.

Some Filmmakers Go Into A Film And It's Already Shot And Cut In Their Head.

Thats What A Ship Is, You Know. Its Not A Keel And A Hull And A Deck And Sails. Thats What A Ship Needs. But What A Ship Is. What The Black Pearl Really Is . . . Is Freedom.

When You Had The Fangs In, You Wanted To Be A Little Bit Careful That You Didn't Actually Pierce The Jugular, Kind Of Like My Experience Shaving Alan Rickman, Which By The Way Neither Of Us Want To Do Again, Especially Alan.