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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Invisible Boy was fun. Everybody else's character, they knew where they were at already as a superhero. But invisible boy's character, you kind of grow up with him within the movie.

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.