Ancient Rome was a violent place.
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew me into movies. When everybody else was watching Star Wars, I was watching Fistful of Dollars.
I like television that grabs you by your throat.
My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.
I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.
If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.
One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.
It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.
