There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.