I Would Like To Make

I Think The Actor Has A Tribal Role As The Archetypal Story Teller. I Think There Was A Time When The Storyteller, The Priest, The Healer, Were All One Person In One Body. That Person Used To Weave Stories At Night Around A Small Fire To Keep The Tribe From Being Terrified That Sun Had Gone Down.

If One Is Going To Offer Children Stories That Underneath The Story Must Be Something That Will Inform, Stimulate And Guide, I Love To Be On Board. I Think Anything That Resonates With History, As Does The Jungle Book And Watership Down, Reflects Patterns Of Behavior, Power Struggles, Deprivation, Migration, Survival, Joy, Love, Betrayal, And All Of These Things. It's Tragic That Children Are Encouraged To Ignore History. We Ignore History And Any Literature That Is Historically Based In History. Even Though Both Of Those Films Involved Animals, Of Course They Reflect Human Behavior.

I'm Convinced That Had I Not Changed My Name, I Don't Think I Would Have Had Quite The Same Career Curve That I Eventually Had.

I Have Never Felt Bereft Of Anything.

In England, It's Now Sir Ben. Mister Has Just Disappeared. It's Not Even On My Passport Anymore. They've Taken Mister Away From Me.