What You Do, Is You Gradually Become

Audiences Are Less Intrigued, Honestly, By Battle. They're More Intrigued By Human Relations. If You're Making A Film About The Trappings Of The Period, And You're Forgetting That Human Relationships Are The Most Engaging Part Of The Storytelling Process, Then You're In Trouble.

I Knew Exactly What To Do On Alien, It Was Funny.

What You Do, Is You Gradually Become More And More Experienced, And More And More Realistic About Dramatic Tolerance, I.e. About How Long The Play Should Be.

Good Fbi Officers Are Not Noticeable. You Would Never Look At Them.

It Goes Back A Long Way. I Wanted To Make Tristan + Isolde As My Second Movie. My First Movie Was The Duellists. And I Was Standing In A Very Romantic Part Of France Looking Around Me Thinking, "my God, This Would Be Perfect For Tristan," And To Cut A Long Story Short It Never Happened Because I Did Alien Instead.