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The Kind Of People That Love 'the Rocketeer' Are The Kind Of People That Love Good Storytelling And Innocence And A Better World, So To Speak, So They're Almost Always Nice People To Bump Into.

Many Who Wave American Flags Also Practice Discrimination On The Basis Of Race. Many Who Wave American Flags Practice Anti-semitism. We Think That Betrays The Fundamental Ideals Of Our Democracy.

I Tend To Get Comfortable With The Dialogue And Find Out Who The Person Is In The Script And Try To Hit That. People Are Sort Of Independent Of Their Occupations And Their Pastimes. You Don't Play A Politician Or A Fireman Or A Cowboy - You Just Play A Person.

I Grew Up 60 Minutes Way From Richmond, In Charlottesville, Virginia And, As A Child, I Was Obsessed With The Civil War. I Used To Do Re-enactments And All That Stuff.

The Network Wants You To Make A Thing That's Just A Stand-alone Episode, So You Never Get Any Character Or Continuity. This Is One Of The Ways In Which Television Can Actually Be Good, And Even Better Than The Movies, Because It Gives You A Chance To Tell A Long Story.