I want to talk to you about your films, obviously, but before I do that, I just want to ask real quickly about your work on ?Young Indiana Jones?. Can you talk a little bit about that?
Ah, right. Yeah, you bet I can. ?Young Indiana Jones? was an absolute lifesaver and back when that was being made, which was kind of the early 1990s, once in a while, some? very times were hard in this country, as they very often are. It?s a kind of cottage industry here, and it has colossal ups as well as colossal downs, and those days were one of the down times. And what happened was George Lucas developed this show and what he wanted was to get absolutely grade A directors for a price. And we needed the money, we needed the jobs, and the marvelous thing about it was that George would? he was immensely generous. He paid very well. He sort of paid straight into your back pockets. If you paid tax on it, that was your affair, but it wasn?t his affair. And he had these sort of wild subjects.
He got a lot of very good writers; a lot of English writers came in and had a lot of fun with what would happen to Indiana Jones as actually a little boy? they did some with a little boy? and as a teenager. And they were a lot of fun. They were a lot of just kind of simple adventure stories at kind of 40, 45 minutes for a TV slot. And you used to shoot these things and you?d go all the world. I mean, it was wonderful. I remember saying, ?You know what? This one, I?d really like to make it like the end of ?Anna Karenina?, have the end of the drama, all happen in front of a great big steam locomotive.? And the guy who was producing it? I mean, George was producing it back in California? but the guy who was doing the kind of day-by-day stuff said, ?Yeah.? He said, ?There are great steam trains in Prague. Let?s go to Prague.? So we packed up our traps and off we went to Prague, and that would happen all over the world. It happened in Africa, it happened in Turkey and Istanbul, all over the show. And these shows were very, very great fun. We had a lot of good times with them. I only did a couple, but I had a great time doing it.
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