Viva Baseball.

I've tried to make a film about love and pride. Baseball became the love for these young men, and therefore we feel all of their ups and downs.

[Perez is a wonderful storyteller in the piece showing a rare openness.] People had told me 'Tony Perez was private. He's not controversial. He won't say too much,' ... But he was so unbelievably open. It's the subject. They (Latin ballplayers) all want to talk about this.

It was much worse than the so-called negro. It's about a triple form of discrimination -race, language and culture.

To bring it up now, as an attempt to gain leverage and a better settlement during the divorce, is just reprehensible.

This was more difficult, ... because with Griffith, there was a story line. This was a piece of nonfiction information that I had to weave together.