Russell Crowe

So the joke I often make about working with Ridley, it's like I get to hold the paint palette for Titian.

While Titian's doing his shit and he turns to me and goes, Russell, I need more blue.

I go, right you are.

I'll give you some blue.

It's a good gig.

Being able to work with super smart people.

It's incredible.

Super creative people.

It's, you know, I know I say it as a sort of a witticism, as a joke, but it's actually what I fundamentally believe.

If you approach everything like that.

Yes.

Everything.

Yes.

There's something there.

Something real.

Something real.

And I've been talking to whatever that is all the way through my life, all the way through.

I actually say this on stage at the moment because I have a song called Michelangelo's God, which relates to an experience I had recently with my mom.

I decided that when I heard that they were making another Gladiator that I was going to take my sons to Rome.

So they get to experience what I've experienced since that movie came out with the people of Italy and the people in the city of Rome in terms of the privileges that they give me and the experiences that they give me and the regard and what have you.