I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

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.

Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are”. “the hidden man of the heart” (1Peter 3:4).

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

I am intrigued by glamorous women ... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

'Jesus' message was to love your neighbour as yourself, and there are people in need. I hope that people got that message.

What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

I think it takes a truly strong man to cherish a woman.

There was nothing dark and hidden about Jesus. He was and is the Light of the world, and He welcomed the light.