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.

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

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.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

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

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

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

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

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.

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.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.