So my good friend and partner in Gibraltar Entertainment is (nightclub owner) Steve Marlton, and he said, "Why don't we make a production company?" I was like, "OK." But we had no projects, so we were searching for projects, and "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" was a documentary that I fell in love with.
What is it about movies that appeals to you? Just that you can take your mind to a different place. It's like an escape even if it's a scary movie and you're fearful, or a romantic movie and you're sad, or a comedy and you're laughing.
I enjoy that aspect of watching movies and moviemaking. So growing up, you must have loved movies. Growing up, we didn't have cable or nothing.
There was cable in Peekskill (N.Y.), but I didn't have it.
But when I got the opportunity to go to the movies, it was a special treat. I would go to see "Rocky" and I don't know if I want to mention this but like, "(Teenage Mutant) Ninja Turtles." And I was just very excited and happy to just go to the movies.
A lot of athletes make an album, make a movie, do a TV show, and it can seem like dabbling. How do you convince the world that this is something you take seriously? I think I took the right step in convincing the world that this is something I take seriously by doing a serious movie.
It's an intense film. You know, it's action and it's exciting but it's very intense and very current. It's about a POW in Laos getting shot down, and he's at a POW camp, and how they survive, and the bravery and kinship that was formed, the bond that was formed.
And it portrays Dieter Dengler that's who Christian Bale plays as he was. His son actually told me, like, "That's my Dad," after he saw the movie. What else would you want to do, movie-wise?
I like character-driven movies and I want to tell a good story. You know, we're independent so we don't have a big budget for special effects and things like that anyway, and that's why I really liked "Rescue Dawn." We wanted to make it real feel real, seem real.
So my good friend and partner in Gibraltar Entertainment is (nightclub owner) Steve Marlton, and he said, "Why don't we make a production company?" I was like, "OK." But we had no projects, so we were searching for projects, and "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" was a documentary that I fell in love with.
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