On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them to also have that sense of fun an….

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his….

It's not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing. Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforw….

The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to that. I didn't want to do….

You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view of some really complex characterization. There was a ….

In the book, D'Artagnan doesn't actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end, and we make quite a big thing about that. I won't giv….

They're classic themes, which is why I think it's such a great story to look at again. The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where….

You do see a few people and you are thinking of how that chemistry is going to work, but it's not really fair to put people who are auditioning toget….

The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn't really go into, but it's a great subject to look at. It's a great gen….

I think there's an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D'Artagnan. In the very beginning, she's using him in a pretty cynical way. ….

One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to eithe….

You're always looking to make it a bit fresh. I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested, and we're always talking to the dir….

The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don't necessarily see themselves as villains. Richelieu is not a vill….