Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.
I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.