I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

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.

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

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