There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

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.

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.

Success is always available to anyone who is willing to pay its affordable price. Stop making excuses.

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

Habit is stronger than nature.

Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

You're the reason why I'll move to the city; you're why I'll need to leave.

I just think the game of golf teaches you so much about yourself like who you really are and what you're made of.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.