I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.

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.

Language is fossil Poetry.

I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

As an actor, I need to get excited about something that I can actually relate to.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.