Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty Python sketches? I can tell you now that doesn't work, so that film's wrong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.
At a certain point in one's career, it's really wonderful when your child turns around and goes, 'Oh my God, Mommy, you have to be in that film. My friends are going to die.'
When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.