If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

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.

Hope is that tiny flame in a candle that continues to glow even after the wax around it has melted.

I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude.

For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.

What's the point of being better than someone else?

As much as we admire all the characteristics of a Ronald Reagan, as soon as something goes wrong, people will hate those same characteristics.