Aging Is The Diminishing Of Early Fearlessness.

I Started Being Interested In Acting When I Heard The Voices Of Sir Laurence Olivier And Sir John Gielgud And Sir Alec Guinness. Ive Had The Great Privilege Of Working With Sir Derek Jacobi And Sir Anthony Hopkins. These Are People Who Inspire The Work That I Do.

Hamlet And Victor Frankenstein Are Each Obsessed With Death. Hamlet's Whole Story Is A Philosophical Preparation For Death; Victor's Is An Intellectual Refusal To Accept It.

So Many Plays With Magic In Them That Would Be A Terrific Invitation To An Imaginative Animation Team.

The Elasticity Of Shakespeare Is Extraordinary.

I Looked At The 1950 Animated Film [cinderella], I Read A Couple Of Editions Of The Fairy Tale That I Have In My House And All Of It Seemed To Say That There Was Room For A Version That Delivered, In This Story, Which Seems To Invite A Feeling In People And I Think That Is Some Version Of A Classical World.