Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

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 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.

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

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.

That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion... Everyone are tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.