I'm Basically Quite A Cheerful Person.

Even If People Are All From The Same Place, There Can Be Very, Very Different Approaches. It's One Of The Things I'm Fascinated By. It's Why I Like Directing. I Like To See How Different People Approach Trying To Be Truthful, On Camera Or In The Theater, And Whether You Can Make Them Match Up.

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.

There Is Some Mysterious Thing That Goes On Whereby, In The Process Of Playing Shakespeare Continuously, Actors Are Surprised By The Way The Language Actually Acts On Them.

In The Hands Of A Great Poet, Words Have Ways Of Affecting Us In Ways We Don't Understand.

Frankenstein Feels Like An Ancient Tale, The Kind Of Traditional Story That Appears In Many Other Forms. It Appeals To Something Very Primal, But It's Also About Profound Things, The Very Nature Of Life And Death And Birth - About, Essentially, A Man Who Is Resisting The Most Irresistible Fact Of All, That We Will Be Shuffling Off This Mortal Coil.