The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren`t really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.
The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.
Some people come out going, I don`t get it. And I don`t quite know what they`re trying to get, what they`re struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn`t our intention.