When You're Doing A Big Movie, You're

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.

In My View, The Only Way To See A Film Remains The Way The Filmmaker Intended: Inside A Large Movie Theater With Great Sound And Pristine Picture.

I Think There's Nothing Worse Than Inertia. You Can Inert And Study Your Navel And Gradually You'll Fall Off The Chair. I Think The Key Is To Keep Flying.

I Always Say To People When I'm Trying To Get Something Going, Bringing On Other Producers Or Other Directors, "you Can Think Of 95 Reasons Why Not To Make A Movie. You've Got To Address Why You Want To Make The Movie And Get It Done. Just Do It." I Tend To Live By That Rule.

It Goes Back A Long Way. I Wanted To Make Tristan + Isolde As My Second Movie. My First Movie Was The Duellists. And I Was Standing In A Very Romantic Part Of France Looking Around Me Thinking, "my God, This Would Be Perfect For Tristan," And To Cut A Long Story Short It Never Happened Because I Did Alien Instead.