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I always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.

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Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to that.
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you’ve got to be careful and watch out.
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When she gets to know him, she sees qualities in him that she recognizes and it’s almost like trying to remake the past, but of course, it doesn’t work.
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You have to make that judgement yourself, and that’s partly where the casting director is so good. It was that blend that we were looking for.
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Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you’d even die for them, is a great subject.
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You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view of some really complex characterization.
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On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene
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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
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He’s not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he’s absolutely right.
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In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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I didn’t want to do that. But what I did want to do was have a real look at the adventure genre because I thought it was ripe for reinvention.
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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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