Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.

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.

Every day you need to do something about your purpose of life

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

A heart is a bird which can only hear the song of kindness and love.

The first step towards obtaining wisdom is to acknowledge the sovereignty and authority of God and to be subject wholly to His will.

If you have a choice, choose kindness.

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.