I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be

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

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough