I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.

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.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it.