When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to just enjoy yourself sometimes, and the audience will, too. Not every role has to be 'The Taming of the Shrew.'
I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest.
I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.
I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.
The documentaries I made were never normal documentaries. They were about subjects I was obsessed with, and I suppose I thought I could sculpt them. What I think I do with my fiction is the same.
Some of the movies I did - well, you have to feed your family.
I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.
Well, it wasn't a holiday, but I had expected to do some sightseeing when I went to Haiti to film a series called 'True Horror' for Discovery. Before I arrived, our film crew were kidnapped and held at knifepoint.