So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done. I'm interested in finding people who I think have a voice - and a very specific voice.

You dont know someone until you know what they want.

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].

Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing

The things you own end up owning you.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.