Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.

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.

What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all.

Having extreme physical beauty presented a problem similar to being rich: it was difficult to know if people loved you for the person you were inside.

If you want to keep your dignity intact, stay away from tequila.

I cannot give it to you, so try to watch me.

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

My good intentions are completely lethal.

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature.