If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

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.

The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!

But the moment I saw you, I knew there was something more. There was something behind those big, beautiful brown eyes that I had to get to know, and, damn girl you’ve kept me in a trance ever since.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.

Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.