I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

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 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.

You won't know how much you’ll miss someone until they’re gone. Go give them a big hug while you have the chance.

Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

with a touch of sarcasm. “Glass is an amazing material. Versatile,

What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. —

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.