To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.