of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming. |
Only to my wife, ... Everyone else thinks I'm jolly good fun to work with. |
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. |
That's my backroom project nonstop, |
The Brothers Grimm |
The heavies came in from New York and said 'you put the bump on the nose and we close the movie down,' |
The real problem is putting guns in people's hands. We see the same movies in England and people are not being shot left, right and center. |
They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it. |
Usually I have my big fight at the end of a film, |
We cut out the most expensive scene in the film! |
We did a lot of work because the original script, ... The premise was really interesting but the script needed magic. It needed real fairytale, it needed a real sense of the wonder of that world, and working with Lance and people was, we worked our way towards this thing. It was quite organic really, we built this film. |
We didn't have TV when I was a kid, ... I grew up reading these stories. For better or worse, they formed my world view. |
We might just get the script out of the legal mess it's in. |
Whether I like it or not, or whether anybody else does, when I start a film I have a few ideas. And as you're getting into it, you think, 'Ooh, there's another idea,' and you're shooting some more and, 'Oh, here's another thing. Let's do that.' I'm always changing and adding. That's just the way my mind works. |
With Life of Brian we were vilified. Yet Christianity is alive and well. If your religion is so vulnerable that a little bit of disrespect is going to bring it down, it's not worth believing in frankly. |