Alyson Provax
7th May 2013
“He will break your heart and make you laugh at the same time. And that`s deep. There`s something really profound about what he`s able to do. It`s transcendent. It`s everything. He gives you everything at once and you have to decide what you feel about it.”
“He just presents you with an array of emotions and leaves it up to you to decide. You know, when he played Willy Wonka [in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971], there was always something slightly terrifying and angry and sadistic about that character, all of which you would imagine might take away from the magic of it. But there was something about how he played it that let you see how this guy living alone in this place, as Wonka was, could have been affected by all of that, how it would have affected his emotional state”
