Once You Crack The Script,

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 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.

Same Thing With Film, By The Time You've Finished Shooting And You've Really Been Into Everything, You've Touched Up Everything In The Editing Room. You've Gone In There And Taken Little Bits From Everything.

I Believe All Of Us Only Use One Tenth Of Our Brain. I Know People Who Use One Per Cent Only!

I Do Like To Make Films With A Political Theme, But Sometimes It's Nice Simply To Make People Laugh. That's The Hardest Thing To Do In Fact.