There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

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.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

I always say wear what makes you feel most confident, and confidence doesn't always come over night.

Moses made mistakes, Abraham made mistakes, David made mistakes, Elijah made mistakes.

The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.