If I Can Avoid The Mirror When

You Don't Have To Underestimate Your Audience Anymore. They'd Actually Like To Laugh A Little Bit. So, The Character Came To Me And Once It's Got Its Grips In You, There's Nowhere To Go.

I Think Today We've Gone So Far Technologically And Also Just Emotionally And Psychologically, I Mean There's A Lot Of Crime Out There And There's A Lot Of Stuff Going On. People Don't Care That They're Going To Go To Prison. They Couldn't Give A Rat About The Repercussions. They Go Out And They Do What They Do And They Don't Care About Hurting Anyone Else.

When You Take On The Idea Of Playing Someone Like Jimmy Bulger, It's A Radically Different Process Because You're Going Into Make-up. The Only Way You Can Do It Is To Come Out Of Make-up Looking Like The Guy. If You Don't Look Like The Guy, It's Going To Bug You, All Day.

[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.

I Always Figured That Once I Wrapped A Film, Then Anything Beyond That Is None Of My Business. If I Can Avoid Seeing The Final Product, Then All I Have In My Head Is Feeling Good About The Experience.