Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

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

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.

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

When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.