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Castaway
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An actor and Hollywood star, best known for Ocean's Eleven and role on ER, who made directorial debut with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
On the island
Eight records
I thought if I'm going to be on a desert island I should have uh Hank Williams I'm salon so I could cry just so I could feel sorry for myself while I'm sitting on an island.
you can't go wrong with Pink Floyd, and why not have a bunch of people singing so that you feel as if you're not alone on the island?
Destination MoonFavourite
I love the song, I love Dinah Washington. You just have to have Dinah on a deserted islander.
You know, you gotta have a classic in there, and I I went for Frank Sinatra singing nice and easy,'cause if you're stuck on an island, you've got to have a little Frank.
Artificial Flowers is sort of the most overproduced song you've ever heard in your life. ... And it's one of those songs where no one actually really listened to the words. They just loved the tune so much.
Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?
Pretty much every song Bill Withers ever sang is great, but I went Who is he and what is he to you? because it's just a great funky song.
every once in a while you just have to put a song on that every time you hear it you stop and you listen to. You know, that you just don't get sick of it.
What I figure is you need a reason to get off the island. ... if you play William Shatner singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, then you will hollow out your own leg and make a canoe out of it to get off of this island.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:03When ER came along, did you realize this is the one that's going to make you?
The minute that we got the Thursday night at ten o'clock on NBC, I knew we'd we had a hit show. I knew we had a seven-year show.
Presenter asks
5:16What was this show your father was doing when you were a little boy and you were on it?
Well, he had the Nick Clooney show. We worked, it was a live T V show, and we would every day be on the show. And, you know, if we were doing commercials, we'd do commercials and it would be for Hussman's potato chips. And I'd, you know, put on an outfit and my dad'd interview me about Hussman's potato chips. Or if it was St. Patrick's Day, I'd put a leprechaun outfit with a cigar, and my dad would say, This is a big day for you, is and I'd be yes, oh, it's a big day. Easter, I'd be in an Easter bunny outfit. It didn't matter. It was Christmas, I was an elf, you know.
Presenter asks
11:04What do you feel now about [the war]? Did you join the Peace March in London?
I was in Berlin. I got to march with the Br in Berlin. ... It was an amazingly different feeling because there is a difference when people are marching in praise of their government stance as opposed to trying to fight against it. There was a real joy, and it wasn't just about the fact that they were all showing up, but they were proud of sort of their the stance of their government.
The keepsakes
The book
Leo Tolstoy
because there may not be toilet paper. And I d you know, and it's a huge book. Not that I'm against the book, but you know, you might need a lot of paper and it's huge.
Presenter asks
21:35How was it for you behind the camera for a change [directing Confessions of a Dangerous Mind]?
I loved it. I I loved it um because it was you know, I came in really prepared. I I did with the storyboard artist I worked, we did nine hundred and eighty drawings. I I I sketched out every shot in every scene.
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24:51Is [being immersed in work] when you're at your happiest?
Yeah. Right now that's where I'm happy. You know, you have a window of opportunity where you get to call the shots and you get to at the end of the day say, this was my stamp on this. This was what I think of if I had the opportunity. I don't think that window is open for a very long period of time. So, in that period, I want to work and I want to try and get things done.
“it's not just your right, but your patriotic duty to question the actions of your government.”
“I also understand, because I used to cut tobacco for a living, that you're not allowed to complain. Because anything that you're doing is better than cutting tobacco.”