My first inkling that I might have a yen for directing came when I realized I enjoyed creating plays for my various sports teams more than I actually liked playing the game.

Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.

Frankenstein's actually interesting; he's kind of like a zombie.

I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.

Systems win you nothing, and football players win you games.

Barca are a great team that play fantastic football.

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.