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 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.

Events are transient, feelings are momentary, perception is optional and internalization is life long.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

He has enough who is contented with little.

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

Expectations determine outcome, always!

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.

Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.