The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.