Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily..

After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that ….

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get ….

Wall Street is a huge issue. And it's controlling our lives today with this so-called election - we really have no choice. We're really just onlooker….

Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the back….

All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form….

I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms of George Bush, and I was wondering, "I….

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair..

People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if y….

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily..

The first casualty of war is innocence..

Horses are very difficult to shoot..

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment..

We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult..

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same ….

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. ….

Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s and the early '50s that were re….

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original..

My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's ….

I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps o….

There are a few versions of the Alexander movie on video, only two that matter. One is from 2007, and then the one from 2014. It's called "the Ultima….