I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon

In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for.

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood

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 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

We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.

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