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.

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

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

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