"Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death."

"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."

"The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?"

"I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version."

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."

"Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar."

"The future of artificial intelligence is a tool that amplifies human creativity rather than replacing it, proving that our greatest invention is intelligence itself."