That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

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.

Trust undone will lead to heartache and pain. So I ask you to be honest and truthful in your love for me.

We only understand the true love of our lives when we bound ourself within the boundries of right and wrong.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

We can shift from time-bound awareness into timeless awareness . . . to the ecstasy that can only be found in the present moment.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful.

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.