I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.”
“At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.”