Director
Andy Tennant says:

"When I finished the 'Anna' script I was welling up with tears, not because it was such a big canvas, but because it's a story of a woman who changed the heart of a king. Two people sacrifice the love of their lives for a higher ideal."

Jodie Foster says:
"The film is a story of East meets West and West meets East, and the prejudices that each person brings to the table. Anna arrives in Siam believing the King is a despot, heathen and barbarian. The King, on the other hand, thinks she represents a country that has done nothing but invade countries and then act like the British way is the only way. By the end of the story they come to appreciate their differences, even though it means that the places they come from can?t necessarily be reconciled."

"I like to make movies about unconventional people in conventional timesand Anna Leonowens was unconventional in the most conventional of times the Victorian era."