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You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

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.

Everyone relates differently to contemporary stuff. They rely on you to do the research for a period film.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

There are people who don't like to use other films as research, but I love it.