It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.
A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.
As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.
I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.
You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.