For A Long Time I Tried To

I Really Approached The Film As If It Was A White Big Piece Of Paper And I Was Going To Draw A Picture On It. And Whether That Picture Was Good Or Bad, Whatever People Thought Of It, What They Could Never Take Away Was That It Was My Picture.

I Was Always A Fan Of The Great Old Spaghetti Westerns, The Sergio Leone Films. But The One That Always Sticks With Me, That I Just Thought Was Brilliant And Perfect Is "cat Ballou." Lee Marvin In "cat Ballou."

There Is Nothing On Earth That Could Ever Make Me Want To Relive Certain Years Of My Life When I Was Young.

Barrie And The Wonderful Characters He Created, Lewis Carroll, Even French Literature, Like Baudelaire Or Over In The States, Poe, You Open Those Books, You Open The Flowers Of Evil And Begin To Read. If It Were Written Today, You'd Be Absolutely Stupefied By The Work. It's This Incredible Period Where The Work Is Timeless, Ageless. So Yeah, I Just Love All Those Guys. It's My Deep Passion In Those Great 19th Century Writers.

If There's Any Message To My Work, It Is Ultimately That It's Ok To Be Different, That It's Good To Be Different, That We Should Question Ourselves Before We Pass Judgment On Someone Who Looks Different, Behaves Different, Talks Different, Is A Different Color.