Neil Gaiman y Joss Whedon

Daurmith consiguió al fin que leyese Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon. Los dos están promocionando sus películas, así que sustancia hay poca. Eso sí, los dos consiguen quedar de tíos chachis y agradables; más Gaiman que Whedon. Se da una curiosidad: excepto sus cómics, jamás he conseguido terminar nada de Gaiman. Como escritor a secas me parece que tiene muy poca gracia. Sin embargo, Davidgp está dispuesto a cambiar esa situación y me ha prestado Anansi Boys; empieza muy bien, la verdad.

Entresaco un par de párrafos.

Neil Gaiman hablando de su película Mirrormask:

But then, I get fascinated because, in America, it almost seems like family has become a code word for something that you can put a five-year-old in front of, go out for two hours, and come back secure in the knowledge that your child will not have been exposed to any ideas. I didn’t want to do that. I like the idea of family as something where a seven-year-old would see a film and get stuff out of it, and a fifteen-year-old would get something else out of it, and a 25-year-old would get a different thing out of it.

Joss Whedon sobre la película de Firefly:

Well, it wasn’t a question of doing the same thing again as finally finishing the thing that I’d started. There are definitely times when you go through every permutation of an idea and then you go, well, that’s over. And that was lovely, thank you. I’ll have my fish. With Serenity, I felt like we had just gotten started. The story hadn’t been told yet. That’s what put the fire in me. When I actually had the whole thing filmed and cast and ready to go, and then it wasn’t finished, it made me a little bit insane.