A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

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.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.

The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.

Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet.

His words back thenstill press down my throat with happiness and sorrow.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Doing your best means never stop trying.

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.