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

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.

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

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 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.

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.

My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

Israeli murderers are called "commandos," Arab commandos are called "terrorists."

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.