My Career Seems To Be

I Was A Very Earnest, Hard Working Boy At School, But My Parents Were Distressed Because I Was Always Bottom Of The Class. But I Wasn't Dilatory, I Worked Like Crazy.

Some People Like To Do Everything Always The Same Thing. That's Another Way: To Do The Same Thing.

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.

If We Had Written Tristan In The True Vernacular The Audience Would Have Been Very Small. It Wouldn't Have Even Been Shakespearean. It Would Have Been So Celtic You Wouldn't Understand What Was Going On.

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.