Every major story . . . needs to be redone every 35, 40 years.

You don't want to throw them into a 120-degree oven getting off the airplane.

That is part of the story. The story of Moses is the only one that is part of Hebrew, Muslim and Christian tradition. It has a lot of meaning, especially today with what is happening in the Middle East.

My actors and crew were miserable working in that desert.

This version is more realistic, has more depth, and Moses is presented as a more complex figure. Heston was a big Hollywood star, and that got in the way.

It's denying the Castro dictatorship of the currency that it needs, of the money that it needs to sustain its dictatorship. It has done that in very dramatic ways,