Somehow I Know There Was Something So

It's Very Strange That The People You Love Are Often The People You're Most Cruel To.

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.

I Only Really Cast People Who Are Desperate To Be In It - Who Were Dying To Be In It, Whose Talent I Believed In And Were Dead Ready To Do The Work That Was Necessary.

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.

I Feel More Irish Than English. I Feel Freer Than British, More Visceral, With A Love Of Language. Shot Through With Fire In Some Way. That's Why I Resist Being Appropriated As The Current Repository Of Shakespeare On The Planet. That Would Mean I'm Part Of The English Cultural Elite, And I Am Utterly Ill-fitted To Be.