Tristan Quotes

"It was a theory that died very hard that the public would not stand for anyone dressed in clothes of another period....I got around this objection by staging what we call a vision. The poor working girl was dreaming of love and reading `Tristan and Isolde.` The scene faded out, and scenes were depicted on the screen that the girl was supposed to be reading....Thus a bit of costume picture was put over on the man who bought the picture for his theater, and there was no protest from the public."

(on Tristan + Isolde (2006)) The funniest scene was where we drag James into the hut. We referred to that scene as the Franco Sandwich, me and Bronagh. When she drops down naked and said the line, "Ah, I haven`t been naked with a man in 15 years!", we always used to find that so funny. You know when something kinda gets you and you just can`t stop? I`d see him shaking and I`d start laughing... it took about 69 takes to do.

(on her first nude scene in Art School Confidential (2006)) Terrified. I was... I mean I had a no nudity clause for Tristan + Isolde (2006) because I didn`t think it was appropriate I didn`t think you needed to see anymore than you see to believe that we were in love or making love and quite often you see so much gratuitous nudity in films, especially from women, and my body is a very kind of precious thing to me. So when I was first sent the script and I opened it and flicked through it, and it says `she enters and she disrobes` I thought no way and threw it across the other side of the room. I didn`t really know who Terry Zwigoff was at this point and then it was actually James Franco who told me Terry Zwigoff is really good and you should think about that and I said `no, no, no, no I couldn`t possibly`. Apparently Terry scoured the country and I think other parts of the world... he is very, very picky about his casting and the producer had apparently got him by the throat and said `look just tell us what you want`. There was about two weeks left before shooting and he said `I don`t know maybe like a young Kate Winslet` and I had met the producer Rus Smith when I was 21 in LA and he said `okay I know where she is, that is fine` and they tracked me down. It was really when my agent Tony Howard ICM said `listen you really should take it... you don`t not take a meeting with Terry Zwigoff`. So I said `fine` and they flew me out and we met at the Standard and just hit it off straight away and when I found out the rest of the cast that was attached like John Malkovich, Anjelica Huston, Jim Broadbent, Steve Buscemi...