If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.

I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because of his idealism, and I'd go back to the Greeks, and I always liked Homer and all the philosophers and their way of thinking and their concept of honor. I think their concept of honor does apply to the modern age, and certain people that walk around are pre-Christian.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.