I grew up on a steady diet of war movies, adventure stories and epics and still love every one of them to bits -- Where Eagles Dare, Guns of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia.
Sidney Lumet, Oliver Stone and David Lean are my cinematic idols. I enjoy constructing hardboiled genre movies and realworld espionage stories.
Oh please, the film's going to be huge. I'm so tired of this PC gotcha' culture where every word a celebrity utters is parsed for some kind of offense. It's like the Internet meets the Salem witch trials.