Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.

I was always kind of serious. It's nice to be able to play a complete bad boy who's the polar opposite to who I am.

Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.