I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising.

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.

Love ignites spiritual fire in the soul.

Life is precious, and in the grand song of the universe, life is short. There is much to be done.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.

I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

As long as I leave my frustration behind, I know I am moving toward my goal again.

I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.