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

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 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.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

All was glorious - a cloudless sky above, a most delicious view around. . . . How great is our good fortune! I care not what may be the condition of the earth; it is the sky that is for me now.

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible.

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.

One illusion is as good as another.