Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

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.

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.