I Really Approached The Film As If

When You Realize You're Essentially You're God, There Ain't Nothing On Earth More Powerful Than You, You Can Do Anything You Want.

With Any Part You Play, There Is A Certain Amount Of Yourself In It. There Has To Be, Otherwise It's Just Not Acting. It's Lying.

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.

For Me, The Question Was, How Can One Take A Live-action Performance And Put It In The Parameter Of One Of Those Cartoons? How Much Can You Get Away With?

Out On The Street, You Never Know What You're Getting, And Suddenly Two Days Later You're Beating Yourself In The Head With A Tennis Racket, Wearing A Towel, Quoting Poe. You Don't Want That For Your Kid. You Really Don't Want That.