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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

- Adrian Hodges