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I Was Definitely Never A Crowd Pleaser.

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.

I May Have A Feather Duster Down My Pants.

The Ultimate For Me Would Be To Do A Feature That Didn't Require Any Narrative Structure.

I Had Never Experienced Anything Like The Response I Got From People For Pirates Of The Caribbean, Where You Meet A 75-year-old Woman Who Had Seen Pirates And Somehow Related To The Character, And Then Five Minutes Later You Meet A Six-year-old Who Says, 'oh, You're Captain Jack!' What A Rush. What A Gift. That Was The Challenge With Wonka, Too--to Be, In A Sense, Like Bugs Bunny. I Find It Magical That A Three-year-old Can Be Mesmerized By Bugs, But So Can A 40-year-old Or An 80-year-old. It's A Great Challenge To See If You Can Appeal To That Huge An Age Range.