I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

I think the days are over where we were okay with bad guys just doing the pirate laugh and eating kids just for fun. There has to be a goal, you know? They have to have a point, and they have to make sense.

Everyone who makes a Star Wars film wants to make it their own but they also have to be true to the concept.

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.