Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.

In fact, someone was telling me that Gladiator was the one film where Ridley Scott didn't take a producer's credit. And it won. But this guy changed the industry twice; with Aliens which was a whole new way of looking at things and Blade Runner that was also a whole new way of looking at things.