• n  an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy

News & Articles

• For Bond, Vertigo to push boundaries, unsettle
  Vertigo Comics has long cultivated its reputation as home to the odd, unusual and unsettling. Its characters — the Sandman, Skinner Sweet and the Preacher, among others — and titles have provided a refuge ...
  June 10, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

• Kirsten Dunst in IESB.NET
  We have really great people though as the villains in this film, Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace -- Venom and Sandman,says Kirsten Dunst while promoting her film "Elizabethtown."
• Neil Gaiman in Los Angeles Times
  My feeling today is that I would so much rather there be no movie than there be a bad movie,Gaiman said. "We're getting closer and closer to the point where you could make a Sandman movie, just because the world is changing. The thing that...
• Thomas Haden Church in Montreal Gazette (subscription)
  There were very specific emotional beats that we wanted ...... particularly in the birth of Sandman,Church said.