Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.

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.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Love doesn’t rule the world. The lust for power and dominance over others is what drives men – always has, always will.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

Nothing is sacred. And, more importantly...the 'nothing' you end up with is truly sacred.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.