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…

- Adrian Hodges

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…

- Adrian Hodges

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…

- Adrian Hodges

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. …

- Adrian Hodges

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…

- Adrian Hodges

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…

- Adrian Hodges

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…

- Adrian Hodges

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…

- Adrian Hodges

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…

- Adrian Hodges