| ALBERT HUGHES:
"(From Hell) is a
ghetto story. It concerns poverty, violence and corruption, which are the
themes we deal with in our movies because they fascinate us. These particular
characters happen to be white, but all poor people have the same
problems."
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 JOHNNY DEPP (Inspector Fred Abberline):
"I stumbled on a broadcast of
a documentary about Jack the Ripper on public television when I was about eight
years old. From there I just sponged up as much information on the case as I
could over the years. I was familiar with the graphic novel. I knew that it had
been released in parts, like Charles Dickens' work was. When I got a hold of
the novel as a whole, I was so impressed to see the amount of research that was
done and the attention to detail - it was like watching someone solve an
incredibly elaborate math problem. It was beautifully executed."
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ALLEN HUGHES:
"The victims of Jack
the Ripper had never been humanized. We wanted to give them life. They weren't
just casualties. They were human beings."
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HEATHER GRAHAM (Mary Kelly - a prostitute stalked by the
Ripper):
"My character and her
friends live on the edge of starvation in this horrible slum. Each day is a
struggle. Having a place to sleep is a luxury. The only thing that sustains
Mary is her dream of returning to Ireland, where she lived as a young
girl."
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ALLEN HUGHES:
"Mary Kelly views Abberline
as just another guy who wants to use her. His decency and sincerity eventually
break down her defenses and she begins to trust him."
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HEATHER GRAHAM:
"There's a scene in
the film where Johnny takes me out to eat, and on that day I said, 'I don't
want to seem like some actor pretending to eat who's not really eating,' so I
ate and ate, shoving it in. I went home and thought, 'That was really good,'
and I threw up immediately."
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JOHNNY DEPP on Abberline's drug addiction:
"I thought we could take
Abberline and multiply his demons. Something that I find interesting in regards
to police officers is there have been a great number of documented cases where
police officers will admit to battling alcoholism, and even prescription and
non-prescription drugs, just because of the nature of their work and having to
be out there in the world, and the streets, doing what they have to do. I
thought it might be interesting to give Abberline that within the context of
Victorian London, with what would have been available back then, and that was
opium."
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