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 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

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.

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

Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit.

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.

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing