There`s no doubt that when you`re up for an award you want to win, but, finally, art is not a horse race. If Gladiator was a great film in its form and Crouching Tiger a great film in its form, which is better? They`re just different. It`s not a horse rac...
Baz Luhrmann
I think I`m better at making films on my home turf, really. You learn from experience and I`ve learnt that through The Beach (2000/I). I love big movies, like Gladiator (2000), but I`m better at smaller films.
Danny Boyle
[while hosting The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001) (TV)] And now, I`m pleased to introduce the star of the film Gladiator (2000), and a man I like to call a close, personal friend, but he told me not to . . .
Steve Martin
What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe`s? Nothing. If I play Gladiator (2000) and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.
Javier Bardem
What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe`s? Nothing. If I play Gladiator (2000) and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.
Javier Bardem
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.
Ridley Scott
But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.
Ridley Scott
[After that fight, Johnson told the Patriot News of Harrisburg, Pa., that several ex-teammates attacked him.] I was fighting about six-on-one, ... I was like a gladiator or something.
Howard Johnson