Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

Some people explore who they think they might be. Then some people explore who they already are and empower it.

There's a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble!

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

I never met a man I didn't want to fight.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.