When I have a full schedule like that, I don`t see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it`s just not my thing anymore.
Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you`re in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He`s the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it`s too late.
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don`t know. It`s woman. It`s feminine. That`s what the sword is about. That`s the symbolic meaning of the sword.
When I have a full schedule like that, I don`t see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it`s just not my thing anymore.
