Ian McKeIlan (actor): ”I loved the hat! It had to look as though it had been pulled through a hedge backward—
several hedges, in tact—and by the time we were through, that's exactly how it looked! . . . I came up with a num—
ber of ideas as to howl might use the hat when l wasn't wearing it—including thinking of it (since it could be a
magic hat) as a kind of bottomless knapsack that I might carry over my shoulder and in which I could keep all

manner of things—rather like Mary Doppins's carpet bag."