The Communist Regime Didn't Consider This To Be A Shining Moment In History And Assigned No Heroism To It. They Classified It As Merely An Accident.
My Criteria For Doing A Television Series Never Changed. I Wanted More Stability, I Wanted More Of A Sense Of Family, I Wanted To Do Light Comedy.
One Of The Elements In The Film That Really Fascinated Me Was Not To Look At The World In Bi-polar Terms Of Us Vs Them Or East Vs West, Which Was A By-product Of The Cold War.
There's A Conventional Reaction When You See A Star: You Anticipate He'll Be A Part Of A Particular Denouement Down The Road, So You Don't Worry For That Character.
For Some Individuals - Some Soldiers, Some Contractors - Combat Provides A Kind Of Purpose And Meaning Beyond Which All Else Potentially Pales In Comparison.
I Realised That There's A More Muscular Approach To Film-making That I Found Very Inspiring.
