Regarding the movie:
"I couldn't understand it. So I kept sticking with it - you know, this was 25 years ago - and sitting and reading it but there were certain suspicious deficiencies in the text that were really bothering me. Questions about the motivations of the characters; questions about Grendel's motivations in particular. Why does Beowulf emerge from the cave after the fight with the mother with the head of Grendel and not the head of the mother, after battling her for eight days? - which is an awful long time to be battling..."
—Roger Avary about how he came up with the film.
"What we did when we decided to write this is that we had our theory, and our theory was that at any point where the poem tells you what happened, it's telling the truth. But at any point when somebody in the poem goes offstage, and then comes back on and says, "While I was in the other room, this is what happened"... they could be lying."
—Neil Gaiman following by.
