I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

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.

No human can be preceptor. Only God can be the preceptor. God is one. He is within this human body, and He teaches, guides the man from within. He shows His sportive forms through dreams.

The late-night backyard encounter and kiss induced insomnia.

It's been years since any hillbilly has reported getting sodomized by an alien. Did they break up and not tell us?

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

And you don't have to care, so don't pretend. Nobody needs a best fake friend.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.