It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.
Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.
The adrenaline of being somewhere no one has ever been before is, or at least not for thousands of years, is quite extraordinary and by and large that overwhelms the feeling of personal terror.
You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!
It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.
I'm considered the 'old daddy of adventure.'
I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.
'Man in the Air' was an experience in exercise.
I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.
I've climbed Stromboli when it's erupting, which is quite a heavy climb: three hours with a helmet to get to the top. When you're there, and it's dark, and you can see this eruption and feel it, it's quite different to watching it on TV.
I got to travel to Australia and I got to main event at Korakuen Hall.
Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.
You spend all this time, as a child, coming up with these fantasy stories, and here I am, sleeping in a treehouse, in the middle of Canyon de Chelly, shooting a Western. That's a bit of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My best vacation memory is getting barreled at the beach in Hawaii.
