THC: Was it difficult to go from a leading to a supporting role?

CVD: I would have swept the floor in a Burton film if he had asked me to. And you can see that--Martin Landau is in this, and Christopher Lee, and Christopher Walken. Anybody will do anything for Tim Burton. Everybody just wants to be a part of it.

THC: What do you think of Johnny Depp's casting as Ichabod?

CVD: I think Johnny Depp was incredible as Ichabod... in some of those scenes when he's cowering in the bed, he made me laugh so hard....Burton and Johnny Depp have such a close relationship--it's like brotherhood. And when you look at that, you could get jealous, but they don't make you feel jealous. It just makes you hope that someday, you'll be close to director like that. When Burton first cast Michael Keaton as Batman, people were like, Mr. Mom as Batman, Come on! But I think Keaton is now regarded as the best Batman ever... and when you think about Ichabod Crane, in the novel, he's this gangly, thin, gawky, awkward-looking man with a big nose and big ears. In the novel, Christina Ricci (Katrina Van Tassel) flirts with him to make me jealous and to get my character to marry her, and it works; Brom ends up marrying her in the book. But in the movie, it's not this gawky gangly guy, it's Johnny Depp. And she kinda goes: Johnny Depp or Casper Van Dien... Johnny! She didn't even bat an eye.