'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environment. That's what a lot of people relate to in the story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.
'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.
Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.
If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.
Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure and try and feel whole again. It's a story of redemption in a sense. I don't want to give too much away, but it's a heartbreaking story that's incredibly terrifying.
Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.