The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

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.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.

Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

I can do whatever I want.

I don't have social media so I'm kind of in a bubble, but I hear there's a lot going on.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.