I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

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

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

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

It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

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.

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.

And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.

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

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

We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 - which is the family.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

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 somewhere.

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

The filmmakers got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

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

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.