 My life after the navigator has been pretty crazy. Randall had called me one day and said, did you hear about Joey? And I said, no, I hadn't. What was it, a bank robbery? When I saw what had happened, my heart broke. It's not just a story about a kid actor that goes to jail. It's about what happened. I was hoping that he would get a good kid, because it all depended on him. They wanted somebody who kind of walked in the door and was natural. And action. We weren't in it for the money or anything except the adventure. When I tried to go back to school and be normal, I was anything but normal. I think Joey was on the verge of massive stardom, to be honest. Child actors always have problems. It's almost like being typecast as a kid, and you grow out of being a kid. And before I knew it, my childhood was gone. Going on a location to shoot a movie was my favorite thing to do. Joey just called. Oh, hang on a sec. Dad, can I go to Norway? He wanted the spaceship to start out, to have a certain configuration when it's hovering. It was a small set and we had four weeks. We built those steps with steel rods going away from the camera. He couldn't really do that with special effects. The Puck Marin. Wow. He was small. You couldn't understand him. We just all had such a great time on the movie. It was terrific. After I finished Navigator, I didn't really fit in. I started smoking a lot of dope. I started drinking a lot. Do us all a favor and kill yourself. Those choices seem so silly to anybody who's clean and has been all their life. It felt like I let a lot of people down. I love you, Joe. I love you. And I spent some long nights down here. There were some pretty dark times, definitely. The more we say it, the better it feels. So every morning, I've got to go to the pharmacy for my methadone. I was here with guys who had been in and out of jail for most of their lives. Why is Navigator so revered and special to somebody? Because it has heart. Kids were always coming up to me saying, oh, you were the dad in Flight of the Navigator. It's a really fun movie with a great message about love and family. It's another world in which anything is possible. When we do movies, it lasts forever. It's lovely when they come up and they say, oh, my favorite movies, Flight of the Navigator. It's not alien. It's Flight of the Navigator. I was the movie star kid who had no identity. And now I do. Now I do.