Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

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.

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

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.