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

I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

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

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.

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

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 developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.