"I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself."

"I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere."

"Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout in the galley you're cooking."

"I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship."

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

"All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision."

"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."