Historical Setting Quotes

Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.

When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.

I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters.

Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

I would love to do a period piece. That would be really cool. And also like to do something transformative and have to transform yourself physically to become that character. Any interesting, fun roles, I'm attracted to.

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that whole time period.

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

When you're filming in Russia in Catherine's Palace, and you're in the real place where the Tsar's ball really happened, all those years ago, it does so much of the work for you. It's so vivid. You escape into this different time through the costumes, the sets and the atmosphere.

I'd love to do a period piece.

In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated by that period in time and would love to do more.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.

It was really fun to play a period piece because I've never done that before and it's completely different.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

Jimmy's Hall' is set in Ireland in the '30s and everything that went under the camera we had to generate.

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.

It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.

For 'The Journal of Finn Reardon,' I traveled to New York City and walked the streets where Finn and his friends would have lived, worked, and played. I visited the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street and toured an actual flat in which families like Finn's might have lived.