I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).
As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.
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.
Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
Once you crack the script, everything else follows.