when the movie "moneyball" was adapted from the book, depodesta did not approve of the way his character was portrayed. "there were a handful of things. some were factual, others were more ephemeral." he had no objection to jonah hill's performance. "jonah was awesome. he was so respectful of me and my time. it would have been flattering to be portrayed by someone of his expertise. it had nothing to do with the casting," depodesta said in 2010. "i just could never get comfortable with the idea of somebody else portraying me to the rest of the world. like any movie, to make it interesting, there has to be some conflict there. in some respects, a lot of the conflict is going to revolve around my character, and that was never really the case in reality," he said in 2011. he also talked about the caricatural focus it brought on him, first in 2003 and again in 2011. "the other problem was i wasn't all that interested in the attention. it had already happened from the book. and i didn't necessarily need to relive it."