To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation

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

Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'

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

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me