You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

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.

Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff, you get people going, "I didn't come here to have my political views bashed."

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.