If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

There are only so many stories in the world... Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most writers have read very extensively in their genre and have become aware they are adding an extra layer to the meta-narrative, finding a new spin on the original.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I'm going to have to give her all the advantages I can because she has serious disadvantages in being a woman. I wasn't going to have her cowed or overawed by class, so she had to be titled.

Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.