Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 630
Have our comfort zones crossed?… Read More
Have our comfort zones crossed?… Read More
Yes, we had a rhino, we were so, I make sure elephants and rhinos, you know, I know they can do a lot of damage in a split second, or even cape buffalo. I’ve had too many things, watching, seen happen. We’ve had accidents, we have a death, we’ve had… Read More
But you know what the deaths have been from?… Read More
“You know, you’re taking away all the feeling I have “of being out in the jungle, “and trying to represent how I feel to the viewer. Read More
“And can we stop it?… Read More
“None of that, Can we, you are gonna stop it.” “If you wanna go back in your tents at night, “or wherever you’re staying “and turn your dadgum computers on, “turn them on all night long, I really don’t care about it. “You know, but don’t ever do that out… Read More
Guy Nickerson, Spectrum Productions, Tampa. I said, “Guy, come here a minute.” I stopped everything. I said,”I cannot bring the world Africa or the, “our country on film, if a cell phone goes off. “I’m sitting here trying to be myself in Africa. “All of a sudden, your cell phone… Read More
“That tells me, why the heck do the show?… Read More
These TV shows today, it’s called reality TV. Our society is changing. I don’t even have a computer. I’m not proud of that. I wouldn’t know how to turn on a computer. Someday, I know I’ll have to learn that. But right now my life is focused. When I go… Read More
I’ll be out there trying, I can’t remember, I think it was the elephant. Anyway, look at this, this is the, I think we were in Tanzania, Look at the elephants out here, must be 15, 20 of them. All of a sudden the guy’s cell phone rings. This hadn’t… Read More
You don’t do this for 25, 30 years almost. We have a comfort zone in the animal, a comfort zone of my film crew. That even applies I think in the zoo world. You have a comfort zone of each of these, when there’s a crossing of a animal or… Read More
Did you really respect the zoo when you went there by not throwing trash on the ground and not throwing peanuts at the elephants?… Read More
That’s just what everybody did, so, you know, that’s what I did. I didn’t think twice about if they’ve selling peanuts to let the elephant hit you with peanuts, or the chimpanzees or whatever it might be. Today, again, is a different world. Today you respect. When you come to… Read More
India, obviously the Middle East, we had to turn down Jordan recently, which I hated. It’d be a heck of a show. But there’s obviously some wars there. Some people didn’t have their kids. So what we’ve been successful at, is having the country, now the Department of Tourism, whatever… Read More
They can use it however they want to. Promoting their country, could do whatever, they just can’t air it. However, turning around now to some countries, who we probably never would go there. They’re like Gabon, I’m going to give them all the shows. They can air it in Gabon,… Read More
Wanting us to come there. If they had to talk about their country, they’d have to pay a film crew a lot of money to come there and do this. They don’t pay us a dime. They just provide services they’d already got there. And so this isn’t rocket science. Read More
Like guys, you think Marlin Perkins’ a hero of mine?… Read More
Which he still is, and his wife who passed away recently, was a buddy of mine. But David Attenborough of Planet Earth. I just wished I could do that. I don’t have that kind of money, that I, I’m not the BBC that’s supported by the government. You know, I… Read More
Every single day, there is no hours whatsoever. And that’s how we succeeded by doing that kind of a thing and a difference in our show, by the way, and you need to know this. How does Jack do it? Very simple. Airfare, lodging, the everything we go to is… Read More
What’s your opinion of the goal of these kind of television shows?… Read More