" When I was prowling around the idea and wondering whether I’d take the risk of doing it, for some reason the guiding principle of the Hippocratic oath kept nagging at me. “First, do no harm.” And with that modest but important ambition, I set out. And then it occurred to me that it was an actor that murdered Abraham Lincoln, and therefore somehow it’s only fitting that every now and then an actor tries to bring him back to life again. "