Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.

The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.