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miles, American, but with Latin blood in them. Terrific guys, I mean terrific. We'd drive one 300 miles, put him up for the night, send him away, another guy would come for the night -- so we got a lot of information. The script is finished, now we're looking for the backing and everything. Maybe a two-night miniseries, just so you can see more, and more people can see it. I mean, a movie, six people go see it and then it goes to DVD. When we did Broken Trail, over 30 million people saw it, which is amazing.

"We sold two miniseries, one is really exciting, it's an AMC miniseries on the Pony Express, 150 years ago. It was very fascinating -- they put up signs, 'Riders wanted. Under 21. Orphans preferred.' Mark Twain was [from] then, Buffalo Bill was fourteen years old, he rode. It was a really interesting part of our history that only lasted eighteen months, because the telegraph knocked it out. And you know, then they took Lincoln's inaugural address all the way across country in ten days. It was a pretty interesting time."

On living in Buenos Aires: "My wife and I, we have a little hotel up in the country. It has a world ranking. One of the best small romantic hotels in the world. Seven suites, up near the Andes...and you can go to watch the polo matches. They haven't lost in like ninety years, nobody's beaten them. Or you can go to a soccer match. Everything's in the city. Big wide avenues, with a race track here and two polo field here. Restaurants are open all the time, so sometimes you don't eat till late."

Duvall pauses, and a familiar excited grin emerges. "I like our steaks up here better," he says. "I didn't want to tell them that. There's fifty million heads of cattle there. They don't age it, they don't corn feed it, and they eat it too well done for me. I mean, they're barbeques are great. My sister cooks right on the ground with nothing but sea salt. The meat can be great, but it's just the way they cook steaks."

The impression you get from spending only a half-hour with Duvall is that the man leads a very full life. As someone in a position to actually pursue all of his passions, he knows how lucky he is and tackles as much as possible; from one conversation it's clear the man has about eight things on his mind at all times. He even still has some measure of anonymity: "I was in Dallas, way back, years ago," he says before he leaves. "I was at a bar standing against a wall, and it was so crowded, and some guy walked by and looked at me in that [familiar] ...

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