On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims.

I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.'

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.