I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

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.

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.

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.

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.