Don Winslow

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.