I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again... I rode horses pretty well. I just didn't like doing it.
I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.
I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.
One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.
I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast - Larry Kert, Chita Rivera - and Jerry Robbins directed. It was tough, a wonderful initiation for me.
I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.
How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.
I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.