Tim Burton points Jack in the right direction.
THE FIRST FILM I saw Jack in was Roger Corman’s The Terror. Then The Little Shop Of Horrors. And then everything: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest… It was all just incredible. He had an edge to him. He was iconic. And there’s a mystique about him. He’s a leading man, but he doesn’t really look like a leading man. He’s kind of an everyman, but he’s not really. He’s an anarchist, but people respond to him. It’s a weird magical-mystery tour of what a movie star is. Mostly, there was this kind of freedom: you always felt with his performances that he was just going for it. It’s exciting to see an artist do that. In everybody’s mind he was obviously always the first choice for the Joker.