It doesn't really work. The most important thing I did was that I wanted to cast all the actors at the right ages. I wanted to cast them at the ages that Austen wrote them. It seemed to me that these are young people experiencing these emotions for the first time. |
It made me laugh, so I put it in. |
It only makes sense if they're young, because they're having these feelings and misunderstandings for the first time, ... I didn't want to make the '40-Year-Old Virgin.' |
It wasn't that originally I didn't want her. I think she's being too modest. I thought she may be too beautiful to play Elizabeth. I kind of had the idea that Elizabeth should be a little plainer. So I met a number of people for the role. |
It's really important that (Lizzy) doesn't change him, ... She helps him become more of himself. |
Jane Austen has phenomenal craft, ... I tried to stay faithful to the narrative, the tone and atmosphere of the book, to find a cinematic equivalent of 'Pride and Prejudice.' |
Matthew was the only man for me, |
Pride and Prejudice, |
So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place; they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience. |
Some of our workers said after hours they might join in a public display of protest. |
The human heart doesn’t change that much, ... I think they’re a few writers where you don’t understand where their talent comes from. Those kind of artists speak inherent emotional truths we’ll always be attached to. |
The most important thing for me was to create the family, |
This is too much for any one group to handle. We need a cooperative strategy that will prevent duplication of services and keep people from falling through the cracks. |
Tom kept saying: 'This is the happiest day of my life!' |
We are pleased to announce the purchase of the Horizons-2 satellite which extends two significant partnerships that PanAmSat has developed over the past five years, ... First, PanAmSat and JSAT will double capacity in our Horizons joint venture, which has already proven to be a highly successful for both companies. This satellite will provide Ku-band growth capacity in North America for PanAmSat in 2007 through the next decade. And secondly, we are extending our relationship with Orbital Sciences as our primary supplier of small satellites which have become a critical part of our business strategy going forward. |