It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

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

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.

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.

It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.