The environment is good for business and the business is the environment. If we muck it up the environment, we're not going to have any tourists.

The evacuees we talked to communicated to us that the better we do, the better they will feel,

I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.

I plan on spending my life here. It's everything to me.

I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

I know there's a lot of people around the country, especially the Gulf south area, that are pretty excited right now,

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.

It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.

It's been a tough year for us. You can always make excuses, but I don't like to. We've just got a lot of freshmen that had never played the game before, and they did everything I asked them to do. And next year they will know the how much extra work in the batting cage and in the field that we need to do in order to get better.

Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.