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"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."
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"I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line."

"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."

"MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna."

"Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars."

"To Be Trained Is To Accomplish The Discovered Goal."
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"I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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 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."
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