If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?
I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can't hang up his guitar when it's clear to everyone else that he should.
If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.
I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.
Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career.
In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'
Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.
I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.
I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role.
I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
