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History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.

So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie.

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.