I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

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.

Learn always and wherever possible, knowing that you'll never learneverything.

Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.

The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mistake in this idea of thinking.

Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

Prayer doesn't sound like a cool hot topic that would cause people to rush to the theatre, stand in line, and buy tickets about prayer.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.