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.
Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.
I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.
But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.