If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

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.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.