They have a nice mix. They run a wing T set, a shotgun set, some double sets with wide receivers on each side. And Tanner is a seasoned kid with a lot of poise.

(Williams) had a good scrimmage. He did a real nice job and grasped things really well. He's taken that job.

I told the guys that you're the starters for this week. If you don't the job, you're fighting for your job again on Monday. We're continually trying to find the best 11 players on each side of the ball.

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.