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" Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit. "
Maniac
Mid-Life
Little
" Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be. "
Should
Way
Her
" Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore. "
Business
Anymore
Even
" Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip. "
Space
Special
Lost
" I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood. "
Old School
School
End
" I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state. "
Frustration
Someone
Remember
" I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead. "
Care
Star
Role
" 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. "
Sleep
Think
Look
" 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. "
Crazy
You
Women
" I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders. "
Old
Got
He
" I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor. "
Professor
History
Guess
" 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. "
Done
Research
Old
" I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day. "
Day
Time
Summer
" I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect. "
People
Who
Playing
" I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time. "
Career
Time
Satisfied
" In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for. "
Responsible
Anything
New
" 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. "
New York
Phone
Remember
" I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon. "
Enough
Me
Guys
" I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't. "
Friends
Confused
Back
" I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March. "
Death
Project
Fighting
" 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. "
Acting
Writing
Rebellion
" Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it. "
Now
Home
Forget
" My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled. "
Through
Father
Mother
" 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. "
Used
Week
Us
" Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else? "
You
Doing
Mistake
" Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough. "
Play
Take
Always
" 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. "
Chill
Things
Somebody
" There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress. "
Stress
Tired
Week
" 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. "
You
Television
Run
" 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. "
New
Know
Will
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