I like the concept of shooting beautiful, aesthetic, cinematographic pieces, and still allowing them to be explicit

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

Eat clean to stay fit, have a burger to stay sane.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because there are no such things as ideal conditions.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.