I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.

Life is great, football is better.

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it'.

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.