“My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.”
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And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
