My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.
I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.
The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.
I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.
This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people.
I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy.
Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit.
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.
Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.
I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.
Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be.
Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore.
Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.
I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood.
I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead.
I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.
I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.
I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day.
I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.
I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.
