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

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good….

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 o….

Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy..

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance..

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country..

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling..

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision..

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somew….

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses..

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people..

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 - it's j….

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that..

There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian..

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..

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer..

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..

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story..

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports..