Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

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.

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.

How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions - but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161

Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

I'm not sure, but [Russia] might be happy to see this guy [Dan Fried] exiting stage left.

I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.