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#157: Alan Rickman - April 17, 2015

The Empire Film Podcast

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Die Hard on a List

It's a really good, witty, strong script, and it's brilliantly short. I had no idea at the time. It was the first film I'd ever made. So I was a complete innocent. We started a huge wave of Die Hard on a list - that entire thing. And also it was pre-special effects so there's a lot of old-fashioned values in it. No, it means a lot to people. And I think it's an example of the days when they used to make movies like that that had a script. Very good. But not too many people have learnt that lesson.

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