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

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

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.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

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.

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

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