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

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

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.

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

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 care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead