A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

Live your life in such a way that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying

There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.