It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.

The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Today, Scorsese would be someone I'd love to hang out with, cos he's a lot of fun. He's got great energy and he still loves movies.

The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.

The directors I would have loved to have seen were Kurosawa or Leone - I would have loved being on their set to see how they worked.

So I pick Nigeria, not to pick on it specifically, but it could be any place in Africa. But I needed it to ground myself.

Off camera we were friends - Bruce is great - but we just don't get along when it comes to work, and that's pretty much it.