“And that's the main buzz with betting games like this. Every weekend, whether I bet or not, I go through lists and try to pick winners in my own life so come Monday, if I did well, I can go 'told ya' and if I didn't do well I can blame it on something else.”
“I thought this was a great story about a winner who starts losing, ... And if you're a winner, what do you do if you lose, and how do you get out of that hole?”
“Once we were doing a scene, and suddenly, right in the middle of the take, he stops and looks at me and says 'I don't believe you,'. That'll stop you in your tracks. When Al Pacino tells you that he doesn't believe you, you believe it.”
“This guy knows knows sports the way an art dealer knows a painting, ... He will tell you intricacies of the game that most guys — even the guys who bet money on games — don't know. I've done a lot of movies, but I was learning from him on this one.”