The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

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.

If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

All chronic and degenerative diseases are caused by two and only two major problems, toxicity and deficiency.

Until we care more about what God thinks than what other people think we are never truly free

Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

We're all a little wacko sometimes, and if we think we're not, maybe we are more than we know.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.