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

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

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

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.

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

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.