“But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.”

The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn’t really go into, but it’s a great subject to look at.

In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.

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.

It’s a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it’s the same in this genre.

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.

And we’re always talking to the directors about that. It’s a big challenge to find people that can do it.

But you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It’s a very big thing.

Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.

In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.

There was a lot that I wanted it to do, and I wanted it to be fun. It’s fun, but it’s not simple fun.

I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested.

They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.

Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.

It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.

On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene

I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Let the healing be easier than the hurting.

It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

History was easy, but I don’t know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.