It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

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.

Life won't change if your mind doesn't change. A better life comes with a better mind.

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else

Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.

Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.

One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".