that's something the writer and director and all of us collaborate collaborated, making sure it wasn't just the comedy about a drunken sort of boozer. >> has money made you happier? does it buy happiness? it's a cliche. i suspect there's a certain truth to -- it brings you comfort. worry about bills and stuff. >> given that i had an early life that was about, like, sort of stealing to survive and having to get on to public transport without paying and sort of petty incidents and low-life crime-type stuff, then yeah, it's obviously easier to have money than to be poor. but i think that to say that money brings happiness is reductive. i think the message of this film, the reason it's a beautiful fairy tale, is because "arthur" has money. he's a billionaire. but he's unhappy and he's lonely until he finds love. i suppose as long as we live in a society and culture that diffuse money and that's the currency of our existence, than i suppose it's going to be difficult to find happiness if you're excluded from that. i think it's important to