Why do you think OBarrs story translates so well to film?
The comic book was created because of a huge pain, a real emotion. The comic book is a catharsis. I’m sure when James O’Barr did the [comic] in the beginning, he was just doing this thing [for himself], it was just coming out of him. We talked together, and I feel that the film is based on that real emotion. Had you seen the first film before? I saw it just before meting with Ed Pressman. I had my ideas on what I would like to do and what I wanted to avoid. I thought that the first film was really good – especially Brandon Lee’s work. I think he did an amazing job. The story and the tragic ending were something I had to think about before accepting the role in City of Angels. But it’s true that sometimes I had the feeling that I was on the same journey as Brandon Lee, because this is the same kind of atmosphere. The same kind of world. The same kind of relationship with death. It’s like this huge pain that I’m carrying throughout the movie. In the Crow mythos, there is a fantasy device
