[on "The Serpent and the Rainbow"] "Hemingway said that if you were
going to sell a book to Hollywood, the way to do it would be to go to
Arizona, walk to the border with California, throw the book across and
then get back to Tucson and start drinking. I sold the book after being
told that Peter Weir would direct the film and that Mel Gibson had been
offered millions to play the leading role. I thought it would really be
a sort of Year of Living Dangerously movie, something that could have
really helped the perception of Haitian culture in this country.
Instead, of course, Wes Craven directed. Instead of going to Tucson, I
went straight to Borneo."
