People Will Say A Movie Bombed At

[the Huge Success Of Curse Of The Black Pearl] Made Perfect Sense To Me On The One Hand, And At The Same Time, It Made No Sense At All, Which I Kind Of Enjoyed. Even Now, With The Dolls And The Cereal Boxes And Snacks And Fruit Juices, It All Just Feels Fun To Me, In A Warholian Way. It's Absurd. It Doesn't Get More Absurd.

Over The Years All These Vampire Movies Have Come Out And Nobody Looks Like A Vampire Anymore.

I Don't Trust Anyone Who Hasn't Been Self-destructiv E In Some Way, And Who Hasn't Gone Through Some Sort Of Bout Of Self-loathing. You've Got To Bang Yourself Around A Bit To Know Yourself.

What Happens To Me When I Read A Script, When Something Grabs Hold Of Me, I Start Getting These Flashes Of People Or Places Or Things Or Images.

They Said, "you Get $2 Million To Make The Film, If You're Not In It. If You Are In It, You Get $5 Million To Make The Film." There Was No Way To Make The Thing For $2 Million, So I Made It For $5 Million. And Then, It Turned Out There Was No Way To Make The Thing For $5 Million. That's When It Got Weird.