"I don't know if I was destined to play this role, but I feel very fortunate to be doing so. The crow in the film, the bird in the film, you could really look as, as a guide. Almost a piece of his own personality that guides him back into his life and reminds him who he was, what happened to him. This is a person who has been pushed right to the limits...of his ability to cope with what is going on. And in a sense, he's quite mad sometimes, in a sense it's completely insane. Almost in a sense that you might think of an insane person having voices you know...a more rational voices that uh... try and guide him. A more irrational voices that come form a more emotional, a more deep-seeded place. I think that the crow is that rational voice. The crow is his guide. The crow helps Eric do what he has to do. In a very practical sense it leads him to the places he has to be. It helps him find the people he has to find. It's a story about...justice for the victims. His mission is to find the man who killed him and his fiance and kill them. It's a wonderful role and it really is a role that you have to take risks with. And it gives you a wonderful opportunity to take those risks and stretch..because you tell me how somebody who comes back from the dead is going to behave, you know. And that's one of the wonderful things about playing this character is, it's a real, you can really take the gloves off and playing this role because there are no rules about how a person who has come back from the dead is going to behave. And then there's the part of him that is filled with rage...towards what was done to him. And one of the things that I like best about this movie si the fact that all of those characters are given balance an the screen. He's torn up, he's torn really badly; emotionally, physically, and psychically. I think that the appeal of Eric's mission is that it is a very pure one. He has come back to seek justice. I've done other films that have violence in them. But I must say I've never done anything where I felt that the violence was as justified as it is in this. There's very little need to worry about compassion. This is justice, you know, and I truly feel that if I were in the same situation, I would do the same thing. He has something he has to do, and he's forced to put aside his own pain long enough to go do what he has to do. This film deals with the concept of a balance being strucked between good and evil. Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon so deeply a part of you that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps 4 or 5 times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20 and yet it all seem limitless. This is the point of view that this character is coming is the whole film. Because it has been brought sharply into focus for him, how precious each moment of his life is. This is the best role that I've had the opportunity to get my hands on in a film."
