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

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 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.

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

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled

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

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