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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.