When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.

It really reminds me of the great movies of the 30's and 40's with huge sets and voluminous fireplaces you could walk around in. Glazed floors. I was expecting a Busby Berkley dance number. Big fanfare and all the girls coming out. I'd have joined in. It's got that scale, you know?

Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.