Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

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.

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

There is a charm in saying nothing, in saying nothing at all. There is a charm in - experiencing.

WHO WHAT WHERE WHY WHENPersonality redefines character through phases of wisdom at different ages

The writer’s job is to arouse emotions. The stronger the emotions the better.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

When you down and out don't nobody trust ya, but when you got bread it seems like everybody love ya.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.