It's not easy to come up with questions that have not been asked to Neil Gaiman in the last two months. There are several promotional interviews for "The Sandman" on YouTube like the one for Netflix Geeked and footage of the panel at the 2022 San Diego Comic Con. Then there are in-depth podcasts like "WTF with Marc Maron" and "The New Yorker Radio Hour."

Neil Gaiman’s verdict on ravens — they are cool. NETFLIX PHOTOS

Many of the questions circle around the element of truth in his fantasy and fiction works as well as on the casting choices for the series.

Fan Girl: In a BBC interview, Tom Sturridge describes you as being a mentor, and being extremely generous. How would you describe him?

Neil Gaiman: I love the peculiar dichotomy that is Tom Sturridge. Because on the one hand, you have Morpheus, God of Dreams, a being of infinite wisdom and gravity, whose every line is a poetic utterance of magic, and of import. On the other hand, you've got Tom Sturridge, who, despite being 37 years old, is frankly, 12.

He's this awkward, giggly, slightly embarrassed 12-year-old and somehow they manage to be the same person, and I love that. I love the depth Tom Sturridge brings to Morpheus and also I love the incredibly kind, incredibly sweet, very, very funny side of him.

At the premiere in London, I got to meet his 10-year-old daughter Marlowe, who is a force of nature. I think he actually cared more about what Marlowe thought about his performance than any of us, and when she liked it, I watched him being more relieved and overjoyed than I could possibly have imagined.

The ‘peculiar dichotomy’ that is Tom Sturridge (as Morpheus) and Patton Oswalt who may or may not be inhabiting a raven costume from Netflix’s ‘The Sandman.’

I love Matthew The Raven — small character with big impact. What do you think Morpheus life would be without this (just size wise) little guy?

I created Matthew, because I needed Morpheus to have somebody to explain the plot to. I needed somebody who could stand in for the reader going, "Why are you doing this? What's going on?"

That really was the joy of having a raven, plus, ravens are so cool! Everybody knows ravens are cool — even going back to Edgar Allan Poe.

We have people talk a lot about the CGI on the ravens. And the truth is, we have three different ravens doing different things, three raven actors who have three different strengths — one's pretty good at flying and landing one's good at moving around... I love ravens, and I love the fact that you know when you're looking at a raven, you're not looking at a CGI animated creation.

Although, we'll use the CGI occasionally to tweak things if we need it. What you're looking at is a real bird. And I lied tonight. I was doing a big talk at the 92nd Street Y in New York. And we showed a little clip from episode four, "A Hope in Hell." And I told them that actually, Patton Oswalt is inside the raven costume during the talking, but that is not true. In fact, Patton Oswalt is probably just at home somewhere in Los Angeles. But I just love the idea that he just sort of scrunches himself up really small and climbs into the thing puts the bird head on.

At the end of our time with Neil, he apologized for going on too long on the answers. In truth, I'm sure a lot of us could go on listening to him for hours.

He closed the interview saying, "I really miss The Philippines, I want to come back. There is calamansi waiting for me there and there is none in New York, so one day, I will get back.