I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress peo….

I wait and take on projects that I think can work..

I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I do….

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relatio….

When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't tr….

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic….

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course..

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated..

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note..

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in..

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of..

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the e….

I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure..

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it..

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligatio….

What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally..

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the str….

I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfor….

I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up..

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act u….

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see..