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

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

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.

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

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

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

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