Katie Holmes Quotes

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'

I would absolutely love to do another Baz Luhrmann film, especially a 'Moulin Rouge' type picture.

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

As long as they're making beloved books into movies, people are going to be like, 'That's not my mental image of them.' It takes that moment for it to click and become their mental image.

I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

The script for 'Trainspotting' was amazing, and it was different from the book.

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.

The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books' controversial themes.

I've not had any interest in running a movie studio, but I want to make one feature film.

A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

I like Daniel Craig. I worked with him on 'Sharpe,' one of the very early ones, maybe the second one we did - 'Sharpe's Revenge?' A long, long time ago, and he was good in that then.

'Rainwater' was particularly special because it was a complete departure from the suspense novels. It's set in the Great Depression and based on an incident that occurred when my dad was a boy.

I love that sort of 1930s and 1940s; I love that period - the thought of it. And I like war movies and all that kind of stuff as well.

I'm a huge fan of the book and Stephen King is one of my big heroes, literary heroes, and I am a fan, and I want to see a movie of 'It.'

The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.

I'm gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.

The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.

What attracted me to 'Eclipse' was that it is a great story and a tremendous challenge for me as a filmmaker.