If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

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.'

I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.

I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.

The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.

Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?

Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?