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

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

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.

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

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

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

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