If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.

I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.