The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

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.

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

How do you like that, Corbray? You're upstaging yourself.

Now I was nothing but a shade of grey - my moral compass ambiguous.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament.

Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.

People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.