Death Is Not My Best Subject.

[john] Hughes Was Well Aware That To Ignore The Seriousness Of Young People Is To Encourage Things Like Columbine, So You Might Want To Listen. And We Were All Pretty Serious, A Little Bit, In High School. Some A Little More Than Others.

It's Strange, 'cause A Play, You Start At The Beginning And You Go All The Way Through To The End. So It's Naturally Very Well Rehearsed And You Get A Rhythm And A Flow. In Film, You Can Shoot The Ending Before The Beginning. It's Very Odd. And It's Like A Craft You Have To Learn.

The First Animation Thing I Did Was The First Transformers, The One That Was Animated Many Years Ago. And I Had Heard That Orson Welles Was Doing A Voice On It.

I Went And Saw Him [ John Hurt ] Here In L.a.he Did A One-man Beckett Show Of Krapp's Last Tape. I Went Back And Saw Him Afterwards, And What An Actor He Is. He Is So Gifted.

It's Like They Talk About How American Actors Have The Method And English Actors Just Kind Of Switch Views Faster. And John [hurt] Is Telling Me The Story As He's Sitting In That Witness Chair, And They're Putting The Final Touches Of Makeup On. And He Goes, "hold On A Second," To Stop His Story So He Can Do The Take. And He Does This Incredible Take. They Go, "cut." And Then Immediately John Goes, "anyways, So Alec, He's Playing The Chess." And I'm Just Going, "holy Crap." You Get Whiplash From Those Kinds Of Quick Turns!