There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.