“Surely the hardest part was staying funded. I never thought about it in those terms. It was all one giant bite, I suppose. I think probably the hardest scene to shoot was Jason coming out of the lake because by the time we finally shot that — I think we shot it three or maybe four times — it was getting well into autumn, and it was cold. They had to get somebody in makeup, underwater, at just the right place with no way of communication — I mean, you had to figure something out — and then he had to jump out of the water, pull the boat down and knock her into the water just at the right time. If it didn’t work, we were out of business. We didn’t have a take two.”