[Director Bill Paxton] told me to watch 'The Legend of Bagger Vance,' ... I go watch it, and I come back and he goes, 'We are not making 'Bagger Vance.'

Matt Damon in 'Bagger Vance' trained for a week,

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.

I have a hard time with free time.