He actually, at the end of the movie, had his fists up in the air and he said to me, it is the best one you have done son.

[I'm reminded of the movie] Gladiator ... Well, we have their answer.

[Two seafaring movie tales recharged the genre: Johnny Depp dazzled in] Pirates of the Caribbean ... Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.