I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.
If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.