I felt much, much freer outdoors than I did indoors.

is really important to me.

I love animals.

I think of all my movies as animal stories, really.

And so I think of all the people as animal equivalents.

So yeah, that's always been very important, you know, standing up for the person who can't stand up for themselves.

You can see a through line from Bad Story, Welcome to Marwen to Edward Scissorhands of the kind of outsider, misunderstood, tormented for their difference.

Yes, that's exactly right.

I felt much, much freer outdoors than I did indoors.

is really important to me.

I love animals.

I think of all my movies as animal stories, really.

And so I think of all the people as animal equivalents.

So yeah, that's always been very important, you know, standing up for the person who can't stand up for themselves.

You can see a through line from Bad Story, Welcome to Marwen to Edward Scissorhands of the kind of outsider, misunderstood, tormented for their difference.

Yes, that's exactly right.

I felt much, much freer outdoors than I did indoors.

is really important to me.

I love animals.

I think of all my movies as animal stories, really.

And so I think of all the people as animal equivalents.

So yeah, that's always been very important, you know, standing up for the person who can't stand up for themselves.

You can see a through line from Bad Story, Welcome to Marwen to Edward Scissorhands of the kind of outsider, misunderstood, tormented for their difference.

Yes, that's exactly right.

Tell, can you tell me about that and that moment?

Yes.

Uh, I'd sort of dissociated really from it because it's so terrible.

Your brain shuts down what's happened to you as a child.

And you try never to visit that.

And the way memories are processed, it's not normal processing.

They sort of remain unprocessed and fragmented and so the story of what happened remains quite elusive.

Mm.

How are you feeling about the new characters, and do you find it as a distraction or an addition, and is it too heavy-handed a foreshadowing?

I, I don't mind the...

The thing is, as, as you were saying earlier, like, I do like the philosophical question of, like, who are we outside of our memories? You know, it's a good one.

I feel that having Juliet be the mechanism for it is kinda crazy.

I think that it, this amnesia plot line with Charlotte could have worked if the Juliet plot line was not happening at the same time.

Because I like, I like that there is some sort of strange mystery that we're not sure about, tying this memory situation into the creat- the ultimate creation of the silos.

I think that's interesting.

So [laughs]