[Lucas questions Edi's readiness, but he's waging a futile argument. Shepard has unconditional love for Edi.] You afraid Edi's gonna take your job? ... I guarantee this thing will be a hundred percent before the next mission. |
a real rattlesnake to play. |
About 40 years ago, it's stunning to think that the NCAA had never started an all-black team before. No one had done that before. |
But talk about a great man, |
Haskins was a complex character. He was charismatic but he also had rage. I think he's more complex and difficult than Bobby Knight. |
He would literally come every day --I had a day off and weekends and stuff -- and pick me up early in the morning in his truck and we'd go out and do what he does every day -- which he goes out to the desert and drinks beers and tells stories. |
His players hated playing for him, but they wound up being lifelong friends, almost across the board. |
I really wanted to go and be part of the protests. |
It's definitely got more explosions, crashes and thermonuclear fallout than you can decently put in a movie, ... But what also drew me to it is that it is a cautionary tale. Technology makes war seems clean and clinical unless it's you that's being attacked. |
Not only did he do that and win a national championship in the process at Texas Western, he became an institution in El Paso. He was never lured by NBA or big-school NCAA money. He felt his job and his integrity were dependent on doing good by his school and town, the same role he had when he arrived there. |
Some of the people started asking about that, and [back] then I didn't know anything about it. I went and talked to Warner Bros. about it, because they're making it, and obviously I would love to do it. I think it's a great character. I like that someone could go from being bad to good and back and forth and light and dark, but also I think [series director Christopher Nolan] did an amazing job. And Christian Bale did an amazing job too. Christian and I did 'American Psycho' together, so it'd be like a reunion of sorts. |
Stealth is the big playful summer roller coaster of a film, but there's a really interesting idea which is that the military, the navy is at the point where they are about to stop building airplanes that will be flown by human beings. From now on the fighter planes will be flown by computers. |
That is oftentimes the case with actors because the nomadic element of their life means, in a sense, that they are recreating themselves. I would sort of — in somewhat of an ugly, schizophrenic style — lie in bed the night before I would start a new school and say, 'What do I like from some guy that I was around that I want to be more like?' There are elements of that in acting. I didn't realize that I was preparing for that. |
The cool thing about Haskins is that he was basically colorblind. He never understood why white players couldn't play against black players and vice versa. It made no sense to him. He just wanted to find the best players he could recruit — no matter who they were or where they were from, as long as they had potential. It was as simple as that to him. |
We had our two and three hitters on three times. But, we either missed a sign or made a mental mistake and couldn't come through with a clutch hit. Those are the things we have to get better at. |