Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

  • -- Edward Hoagland 爱德华·霍格兰

在某种古老的传奇故事中,动物是程式化的角色——程式化是因为即使是最敏锐的动物,在扮演自己的角色时也没有多少回旋的余地。

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I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

我必须习惯戴着面具,戴着假体,一边用这些东西表演,一边唱歌,通过程式化的动作表达自己,同时尽可能地让它人性化,让观众更接近幽灵的恐怖。

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

孩子们经常问我角色是真实的还是虚构的,我总是告诉他们,‘我希望他们是真实的,但我是虚构的。’

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

低级动物的智力,就像人类的许多智力一样,不涉及自我。

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

我的角色和我的读者将要面对的生活没有什么不同。

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

不管动物承认与否,它们和我交流。