As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

— Great Expectations (1998) directed by Alfonso Cuarón

He's an enigma. Winston is equal parts Boy George, Bea Arthur and Daniel Davis. Winston was a very collaborative process. I have Cathy Zuber to thank for the look of the costumes. Tom Watson, who did the wig… Actors talk about being possessed by the design, and that's exactly what happened to me.

In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

Th' first one t' ketch a circus in a lie is a boy