Quotes from Johnny Depp:
"I always thought Roddy [McDowall] had such an interesting gift, just great presence, great delivery. He was an interesting actor, one of those guys who was very individual. Angela Lansbury was a great inspiration. I loved how she was in Death on The Nile. I found her fascinating. These two were the most inspirational characters. Maybe a little bit of Basil Rathbone, but a lot more girlie."
--Johnny Depp
The Guardian, Dec. 17, 1999
"Tim and I thought our aim was to make him [Ichabod] much closer to the book, and even go a little further. I've tried to make him prissy, you know, kind of prissy, almost like a nervous pre-teen girl. He's very squeamish when it comes to seeing a corpse, or when he sees a bug he's kind of ... euuhhh, it freaks him out."
--Johnny Depp
The Guardian, Dec. 17, 1999
"My initial idea was to go with some prosthetics, you know, and do a sort of snipe nose of Ichabod Crane, the legendary Ichabod Crane. And the big ears and the long hands and arms and stuff... Tim, in fact, was very smart in thinking that we didn't need it, you know, in that there...
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