The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.

It has been well publicized that the New Mexico Legislature sees this as having such a big impact on families. Because of all the underage DWI crashes and other effects of teenage drinking, they've made this a fourth-degree felony.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

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.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.