Stuart Gordon at Onion AV Club

By: Mike Whybark
Date: Wednesday, October 02, 2002
Source: The Onion A.V. Club

Cult fave director Stuart Gordon speaks with the A.V. crew at THE ONION this week, covering his Lovecraft adaptations, his theater background and more.

On Lovecraft: "A lot of his stories are difficult to present because they're very internal. He always says this thing, you know, 'It was too horrifying to describe.'"

On theater: "...I had always thought that theater was sort of like a bad movie, where you just sat in a balcony and watched tiny little figures move around overacting."

On being arrested for a staging of PETER PAN: "Peter Pan and the Lost Boys became the hippies and yippies, and when they flew off to Neverland they did it by dropping acid. That was the pixie dust, and the thing that got them there was a psychedelic light show projected on naked women dancers to the strains of 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.' That got us arrested."

The interview, which is lengthy, is linked to in the "Source" listing above.

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