"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

"I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss."

"I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part."

"Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that."

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

"It is a enduring truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft."

"In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them."

"The beauty of the unknown is that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."