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I Do Like To Make Films With A Political Theme, But Sometimes It's Nice Simply To Make People Laugh. That's The Hardest Thing To Do In Fact.

The Time It Would Take Me To Write A Screenplay It Would Take Me The Time To Make Two Films. I Would Rather Make The Movies And I'm A Better Moviemaker Than I A Would Be Writer.

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.

Yes, Obviously, There's This Degree Of Wanting People To Accept Other People Faiths And Philosophies.

You Step Forward And Make It Real For A Start. You Choose A Sensible Moment In History. Funnily Enough, England Was Bankrupt And The Moment Is The Death Of Richard The Lionheart... Richard Takes An Arrow In The Neck Collecting A Small Debt From A Small Castle On His Way Home From The Crusades Because He's Penniless.