When I first said I wanted to make a film about Rome and cast `Russell Crowe`, everyone had a good old snigger. I thought, "You wait." They`ve done the same with Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and Orlando Bloom. I now say, "Take a look at this".
The person that probably stopped me in my tracks as a child - because I used to love to go to the cinema - was David Lean with Great Expectations (1946). I thought everything was somehow better than most of the other movies in terms of the way it looked -...
I`m not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I`m saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over art. Commerce has become the most important thing in the film industry. Hollywood is an industry, it`s not an art form, ...
When I first said I wanted to make a film about Rome and cast `Russell Crowe`, everyone had a good old snigger. I thought, "You wait." They`ve done the same with Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and Orlando Bloom. I now say, "Take a look at this".
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