You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.
“It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.”
“I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.”