A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

Nowadays, everything's evolved into superheroes and it's boring. If I see one more superhero movie I'm going to shoot myself.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Aim towards enemy." - instructions on U.S. rocket launcher

Everything is within the limit of possibility.

I am at my most powerful when I am working with life rather than against it.

And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Sam- I didn't know you had a last name I thought you were like Iman or Madonna or Beyonce. You just needed the one name. Dekka- Yeah sure, me and Beyonce

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

When you lose someone, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.